Sheikh Bhikhari Ansari was born in a weaver Ansari family at Lotwa-Khudia Village at Ranchi on 2 October 1819, from childhood, he used to take care of his family by doing his family profession,preparing coarse clothes and selling it in the local Haat market. He was a combatant in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was a Dewan and general of Tikait Umrao Singh. He was the freedom struggler in the Indian rebellion in 1857.

He prevented East India Company forces from occupying Ranchi by cutting down Chutupalu Ghati trees in order to obstruct their advance prior to engaging Company forces. The British hanged him alongside Tikait Umrao Singh in a banyan tree of Chutupalu Ghati in Ramgarh in January 8 1858. General Mc Doland said at that time “Among the rebels, Bhikhari is the most dangerous and notorious mutineer.”

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Early life

Sheikh Bikhari Ansari was born to Sheikh Buland Ansari on October 2, 1819 at the Lotwa-Khudia in Chotanagpur (now in Ranchi district, Jharkhand) in a weaver Ansari family. He spent his life in Khudia-Lotwa in Ormanjhi.

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8. https://muslimmirror.com/eng/shaikh-bhikari-gate-at-ormanjhi-chowk/