Question

In Faizabad, the revolt of 1857 was led by whom ?

Answer 1

In Faizabad, the revolt of 1857 was driven by Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah Faizabadi.

Maulvi Ahmadullah, born in 1820 in the second decade of the nineteenth century as Saiyid Ahmad Ali Khan pseudonym Ziauddin, titled Dilawar Jang, he was a child of Nawab Muhammad Ali Khan of Chinapattan (Madras).

He got, as a prince, the best training of the time. He finished his studies in established languages and conventional Islamic sciences and furthermore got broad preparing in the specialty of Warfare. He appears to have procured some knowledge of English. As a venturesome youthful sovereign, his distinction came to far and wide.