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Maulvi Liaquat Ali
Maulvi Liaquat Ali was a Muslim religious leader from Allahabad (Prayagraj). He was one of the leaders in the revolt against the British in 1857, in what is now known as the First Indian war of Independence, or the uprising of 1857. He was a religious teacher, an upright pious Muslim, and a man of great courage and valour. He was a humble and simple man but when he took the reins of the freedom struggle, he became a dreadful enemy of the British.
Maulvi captured the Khusro Bagh and declared the independence of India Khusro Bagh became the headquarters of the sepoys under Maulvi Liaquat Ali who took charge as the Governor of liberated Allahabad. however, the Mutiny was swiftly put down and Khusro Bagh was retaken by the British in two weeks. Liaqat Ali was sentenced to life in prison at Port Blair, in one of the Cellular Jail in Andaman Islands. He was tried and sentenced to death, but died in captivity in Rangoon on 17 May 1892.
Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy
Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy (24 November 1806 – 22 February 1847) was an Indian freedom fighter. He and his commander-in-chief Vadde Obanna were at the heart of the rebellion against the British in 1847, where 5,000 peasants rose up against the British East India Company in Kurnool district. They were protesting against the changes introduced by the British to the traditional agrarian system in the first half of the nineteenth century. These changes include the introduction of the ryotwari system and other attempts to maximize revenue through exploiting lower-status cultivators by depleting their crops and leaving them impoverished. He killed over 3,000 British people during the course of the revolt. On 22 February 1847, he was executed in Koilkuntla in front of a crowd of over 2000 people. British kept his head on the fort wall in public view until 1877.