Re: Drawing the parallels between Syed Ahmad Bareilvi and Talibans
Though he did claim to be a pashtun which was not believed by locals. The fact is his syed family was once settled in yousfazai country from where they migrated to rohailkkhand along with yousafzais (rohillas) in early years of 18th century. After fall of rohilkahand in 1774, rohillas got dispersed and most of them became quite wandering people. He along with thousands of rohillas served in army of amir khan, a yousazai ruler of tonk (rajasthan). For such reasons he chose yousafzi country and Peshawar as launching site for his jihad…Most of his hindostani followers were actually rohillas, who had become culturally, linguistically and racially different from proper yousazis.
shah alilullah also belonged to muzaffarnagar , rohilkhand , which was an afghan settlement thats why he consulted rohillah chief najibudaula. He may have even rohilla roots.
Deobandism has lot of connection with Rohillas,i will post an article about it.