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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Muhammad    
First Name(s)  Azimulla Khan    
Birth Year  ?    
Death Year  ?    
Entry  He was found with his mother during the famine of 1837-38, and sustained by charity : educated in the Cawnpur Free School, receiving a subsistence allowance, and there, after ten years' study, became a teacher : two years later he was made a clerk to Brig-General Scott and afterwards to Brig-General Ashburnham : subsequently he attached himself to Nana Sahib (q.v.) and was sent 'in 1853 to England to plead the cause of his master before the Court of Directors. He resided in England for two years, made many acquaintances and gathered information on European affairs : went to the Crimea and visited the camp before Sebastopol. In the mutiny, in June, 1857, Azimulla advised the Nana, then marching on Delhi, to return to Cawnpur : he arranged the capitulation of the defenders of Cawnpur : instigated, and was present at the massacre of June 27, at the Ghat : fled with Nana Sahib to Nipal on the approach of the English troops, and was not seen again.    
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