Peer Ali Khan

Peer Ali Khan
Born1812[1]
Muhammadpur, Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh (then British India)
DiedJuly 7, 1857
Cause of deathCapital punishment
NationalityIndian
OccupationBookbinder
Known forIndian freedom movement, Indian Rebellion of 1857

Peer Ali Khan (1812 – July 7, 1857) was an Indian revolutionary and rebel, who participated in the Indian independence movement.[2] He was given capital punishment for participating in the freedom struggle of 1857.[3][4][5]

Khan was a bookbinder by profession and he used to secretly distribute important leaflets, pamphlets and coded messages to freedom fighters. He conducted regular campaigns against the British government.[2]

He was arrested along with his 33 followers on July 4, 1857.[6]

On July 7, 1857, Khan was hanged in full public view by William Tayler, the then commissioner of Patna,[7] along with 14 other rebellions, include Ghasita Khalifa, Ghulam Abbas, Nandu Lal alias Sipahi, Jumman, Maduwa, Kajil Khan, Ramzani, Peer Bakhsh, Peer Ali, Wahid Ali, Ghulam Ali, Mahmood Akbar and Asrar Ali Khan.[3][8]

Commemoration

A road adjacent to the Patna Airport is named after him by Nitish Kumar's government in 2008. Also, Saheed Peer Ali Khan Park, a children's park in front of the District Magistrate's residence near the Gandhi Maidan in Patna, was named after him by the State Government of Bihar.[9]

Further reading

  • Khan Mohd. Sadiq Khan (2007). Excavation of Truth: Unsung Heroes of 1857 War of Independence. Kanishka Publishers. pp. 25, 45, 51. ISBN 9788173919763.
  • The History of the Indian Revolt, and of the Expeditions to Persia, China, and Japan, 1856-7-8. W. U. R. Chambers, Bavarian State Library. 1859. p. 153.
  • The Story of mahafuz Indian Mutiny (1857-58). W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell. 1885. p. 78.
  • Charles Ball (2005). The History of the Indian Mutiny: A Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India ... Sang-e-Meel Publications. pp. 156, 158. ISBN 9789693516951.

References

  1. ^ "Editorial Article". employmentnews.gov.in. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Unsung heroes of freedom struggle". The Hindu. 10 August 2017.
  3. ^ a b Ahmad, Faizan (15 August 2010). "The unsung freedom fighters". The Times of India.
  4. ^ Mehrotra, Akarsh (2 June 2015). "30 Indian Freedom Fighters Who Disappeared In The Pages Of History". ScoopWhoop.
  5. ^ "1857 के विद्रोह में मुसलमानों को संगठित करने वाले पीर अली के वंशज चितरपुर में!" (in Hindi). Siasat. 6 July 2018.
  6. ^ "70 years of Independence: 5 unsung freedom fighters who took British to task in India". India TV News. 14 August 2017.
  7. ^ Kumar Chaudhary, Pravana (26 March 2012). "He recalled that Peer Ali Khan, a poor bookbinder who used to clandestinely distribute important leaflets, pamphlets and coded messages among freedom fighters, was hanged in full public view by the then Patna commissioner William Taylor". The Times of India.
  8. ^ William Tayler (9 September 2007). The July 1857 Rebellion At Patna. Peoples Democracy. Archived from the original on 30 March 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  9. ^ "Martyr Peer Ali remembered". The Times of India. 7 July 2017.


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