The leader of the Wahabi movement was Syed Ahmad Barelvi. The Wahhabi Movement in India was a vigorous movement for socio-religious reforms in Indo-Islamic society in the nineteenth century with strong political undercurrents.

It turned into an armed struggle which was later suppressed with brute force by the British.

• Social and Religious Movements in 19th Century India
• British Raj
• Revolt of 1857