The Revolt of 1857 was the first major challenge to the East India Company and literally put comma to the colonial ambitions of its masters in England. During the Revolt, which took place in many parts of Central, Northern, and Eastern part of India, different sections of society joined the rebel sepoys of the East India Company in what has been described by some scholars as First War of Indian Independence. The rebels proclaimed a reluctant Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar as their ‘leader’, although the sepoys were hard to be controlled and disciplined. The rebels got support from different quarters, but there existed a large section of princes, landlords and other ruling elite who were against the uprising. These aristocrats drew their power and pomp from the Company rule and depended on them to further their interests and hegemony. They resisted the rebels and at many places were the main bulwark against the rising tide of anti-British feelings. This paper attempts to study their role by taking into account some selective cases from India.