Tribal and Peasant Revolts
Understand how colonial revenue, land and forest policies produced rural resistance and learn the four textbook categories of peasant uprising.
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Tribal and Peasant Revolts: Causes, Types and Rural Resistance
Understand how colonial revenue, land and forest policies produced rural resistance and learn the four textbook categories of peasant uprising.
Open article →Farazi, Wahhabi and Kol Resistance, 1818-1832
Trace early peasant mobilisation under Haji Shariatullah, Dudu Mian and Titu Mir, then study the Kol uprising against debt and eviction.
Open article →Santhal Rebellion: Hool under Sidhu and Kanhu, 1855-1856
Study why the Santhals rose, how Sidhu and Kanhu led the Hool, and how suppression led to the creation of Santhal Parganas.
Open article →Indigo and Pabna Peasant Revolts, 1859-1876
Compare the militant Indigo cultivators' strike with Pabna's agrarian leagues and legal resistance against rent, levies and eviction.
Open article →Deccan Riots and Punjab Peasant Movement, 1875-1900
Learn how moneylender-driven land alienation caused the Deccan Riots and Punjab agitation, and compare the laws that followed.
Open article →Munda Ulgulan: Birsa and Tribal Land Rights, 1899-1900
Study how Khuntkatti land loss and forced labour led to Birsa Munda's Ulgulan, its suppression and the 1908 tenancy protection.
Open article →Moplah Rebellion: Tenancy, Colonial Authority and Suppression, 1921
Study the Malabar tenant grievances, the 1920 district conference, the August 1921 revolt and the scale of British suppression.
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