Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal

Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal (Punjabi (Shahmukhi)/ Urdu: رائے احمد خان کھرَل ‎): also called Amo Kharal (1785–1857) was a Punjabi freedom activist and folk hero, who fought against the British Raj in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.[1][2][3]

Early History

Ahmad Khan Kharal was born into a rich landowning family of the Kharal Jatt tribe 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. As a young man he fought against the rising Sikh power led by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. 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.[4]

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 26 July 1857, Kharal went with a force to attack the Gogera Jail (now in Sahiwal District) to release some of his arrested companions arrested, but was ambushed by assistant commissioner of Gogera, Leopold Oliver Fitzhardinge Berkeley[5] and their local allies. Kharal and his assistant, Sarang, were both killed fighting against the colonial force.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Ahmed Khan Kharal and the Raj". thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  2. "Kharal and Berkley II". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  3. "Past in Perspective". nation.com.pk. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  4. Saeed Ahmed Butt (2015). "Rai Ahmad Khan Kharral (Myth or Reality)" (PDF). JPUHS. 28 (2): 173–191. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  5. "Lionel Berkeley: Letters and papers". Archives Hub. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  6. "Tributes to A.D. Aijaz, the oral historian of Kharal's resistance - Newspaper". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
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