Wahabi Movement and Other Nineteenth-Century Movements in Bihar
BPSC Prelims demand
Learn the Patna-centred network, major names, trials and chronology. Use care with terminology: colonial records frequently called the network “Wahabi”; participants and historians also use terms such as Tariqa-i Muhammadiyya, Ahl-i Hadith or Mujahidin in particular contexts. Do not treat every label as identical without context.
Timeline and context
Names, terms and events
Item
Exam-safe point
Patna
Major organisational centre/stronghold in accounts of the movement.
Sadiqpur
Patna locality associated with leading families and the network.
Sayyid Ahmad of Rae Bareli
Associated with early nineteenth-century reformist/revivalist mobilisation; do not confuse him with Maulvi Ahmadullah of Patna.
Maulvi Ahmadullah of Patna
Central figure in the later Patna case/trial material; distinct from the Faizabad figure of the same name.
Yahya Ali
Associated with the Patna network and later colonial prosecutions.
Sittana
North-west frontier locality appearing in colonial allegations and supply-network cases.
1864–65 trials
Important for questions on colonial suppression of the Patna network.