Battle of Balakot
Syed Ahmad Barelvi's jihad movement against Sikh rule in the frontier hills ended when his force was caught at Balakot.
Syed Ahmad Barelvi, a reformist preacher from Rae Bareli, gathered followers from across India and in 1826 came to the frontier to wage jihad against the Sikh kingdom. For five years his mujahideen fought the Sikhs in the hills of Hazara and Peshawar, with the help of some of the Pathan tribes.
In May 1831 a Sikh army under Prince Sher Singh trapped Syed Ahmad and his followers at Balakot in the Kaghan valley. On 6 May the Sikhs attacked; Syed Ahmad and his chief lieutenant, Shah Ismail, were killed with hundreds of their men.
The battle ended the movement in the frontier. Syed Ahmad's followers continued to resist the British for decades from the mountains.
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