The Wahhabi Movement in India by Qeyamuddin Ahmad

Author:Qeyamuddin Ahmad [Ahmad, Qeyamuddin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367514839
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-04-24T00:22:12.633522+00:00

NOTES

  1.

To mention only a few, Kaye, op. cit., Malleson, op. cit., G.W. Forrest, History of the Indian Mutiny, Edinburgh & London, 1904–12.

  2.

S.N. Sen, op. cit., R.C. Majumdar, The Sepoy Mutiny and the Revolt of 1857, Calcutta, 1957 and History of the Freedom Movement in India, vol.I, 2nd rev. ed., Calcutta, 1971; K.K. Dutta Biography of Kunwar Singh and Amar Singh, Patna, 1957, P.C. Joshi (ed.) Rebellion 1857, A Symposium, P.P.H., 1957.

  3.

Vida supra, pp. 148 ff.

  4.

K.M. Ashraf, “Muslim Revivalists and the Revolt of 1857,” P.C. Joshi (ed.), Rebellion 1857, A Symposium, P.P.H., 1957, pp. 71–102.

  5.

Sen, op. cit., p. 405.

  6.

Ibid., Foreword, pp. XV–XVI.

  7.

Ibid., p. 402.

  8.

Ibid., pp. 409, 411. K.K. Datta, op. cit., p. 112.

  9.

Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan, Mawāi ’du ’l ‘Awāi’d, 1882, p. 34; see also his other work, Tiqsār-i Jiyūdu ’l Aḥrār min Tizkār-i Junūdu ’l Ahrār, hereafter referred to as Tiqsar.

 10.

See C.R., 1870, pp. 385 ff.; I.M., and infra, chapter X.

 11.

Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan, Tiqsar in which he states the point, often neglected that Sayyid Ahmad chose not to wage war inside (British) India but migrated outside to fight.

 12.

For an account of his career and activities, see my article, “Maulawi Ali Kurim, a scholar-soldier of Bihar during the Movement of 1857–59,” I.H.R.C. Progs, vol., XXXIII, pt. II, 1958, pp. 9–15.

 13.

Younger brother of Wilayat Ali.

 14.

J.S. Jha, “The Patna Conspiracy of 1857,” I.H.R.C. Progs, vol. XXXII, pt. II, 1956.

 15.

Ibid. This is corroborated by the Tadhkira-i-Sādqa, which mentions Pir Ali’s contacting Farhat Husain and seeking his cooperation in the contemplated rising. The latter, however, declined for reasons to be discussed presently.

 16.

B.K.S., p. 83.

 17.

We are not concerned here with the details of the rising, but its main events may be briefly noted. The anti-government activities of the diffierent groups culminated in a rising in the town on the 3rd July 1857. It was precipitated, probably before time, due to apprehensions about the exposure of the plan. Dr. R. Lyell, the Principal Assistant to the Opium Agentin Bihar, was shot dead, but the situation was controlled by Captain Rattray’s force. Pir Ali, the leader of the rising, was arrested the next day and after a mere show of trial he was hanged ‘within three hours after sentence.’

 Tayler, who let loose a reign of terror in the town, and who tried Pir Ali felt constrained to admire the courage of conviction and idealism displayed by the condemned prisoner. He writes that on being asked as to whether Pir Ali could do anything to make it worthwhile to spare his life. The prisoner replied; There are some cases in which it is good to save life, others, in which it is better to lose it.” He then taunted Tayler with the repression he had exercised and concluded by saying, “You may hang me or such as me every day, but thousands will arise in my place and your object will rever be gained.” (For detail, see William Tayler, Our Crisis, 1858, K.K. Datta, B.K.S. pp. 70–88; J.S. Jha’s article cited above).

 18.

The account is based on Tayler’s own version, vide, Our Crisis.

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