Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal

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Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal (Punjabi (Shahmukhi)/ Urdu: رائے احمد خان کھرَل): also called Amo Kharal (1803 – 21 September 1857[1][2]) was a Punjabi freedom activist and folk hero from British India, who fought against the British Raj in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.[3][4][5]

Early History[]

Ahmad Khan Kharal was born into a rich landowning Rajput family of the Punjabi Kharal[6] clan in the Sandal Bar region of Punjab, in Chak 434 Gb Jhamra village 23 km from Tandlianwala Faisalabad District and 57 km from Faisalabad city. Later on, as an old man in his 70s, when the rebellion broke out against the British, he also raised a force to fight against them.[7]

Death[]

Ahmad Khan Kharal was quite successful in helping the local people and keeping them safe from British troops, keeping up a guerilla warfare against British Raj for some months. On 21 September 1857, Kharal went with a force to attack the Gogera Jail (now in Okara District) to release some of his arrested companions, but was ambushed by assistant commissioner of Gogera, Leopold Oliver Fitzhardinge Berkeley[8] and their local allies. Kharal and his assistant, Sarang, were both killed fighting against the colonial force.[9]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Ahmed Khan Kharal and the Raj". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  2. ^ "Past in Perspective". The Nation. 2019-06-25. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  3. ^ "Ahmed Khan Kharal and the Raj". thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  4. ^ "Kharal and Berkley II". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  5. ^ "Past in Perspective". nation.com.pk. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  6. ^ https://www.dawn.com/news/793732/kharal-and-berkley-ii[bare URL]
  7. ^ Saeed Ahmed Butt (2015). "Rai Ahmad Khan Kharral (Myth or Reality)" (PDF). Journal of the Punjab University Historical Society. 28 (2): 173–191. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  8. ^ "Lionel Berkeley: Letters and papers". Archives Hub. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  9. ^ "Tributes to A.D. Aijaz, the oral historian of Kharal's resistance - Newspaper". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2020-05-07.


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