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people's resistance against b before 1857 (civil uprisings/rebellions…
people's resistance against b before 1857
objective
common - end b rule
civil uprisings/rebellions CU
causes/reasons
zamindars(z)/poligars(of south)
sidelined by new class - govt officials, merchants and moneylenders - hurt z's ego
lost land and revenue control
artisans
patrons/buyers (princes, chieftains) disappeared
cheap(machine made) b imports
exports restricted
lack of alternate opportunities
priestly class
disappearance of traditional landed and bureaucratic elite on which they dependent
foreign character of b rule - contemptuous(disrespectful)
structure
led by
dispossessed z/poligars(palayam(land- few villages) holders - granted by rulers(mainly nayakas) for their military service)
dispossessed landlords(small z)
deposed native rulers or descendants
mass support
rack-rented peasants
unemployed artisans
demobilised(taken out of service) soldiers
important CUs
sanyasi revolt (1763-1800)
aka fakir rebellion
led by
religious monks
dispossessed zamindars
features
violent
hindu-muslim participation
women participation - debi chaudhurani
inspired bankim chandra chaterjee to write
novels - 'Anandmath', 'devi chaudhurani'
song - 'vande matram'
in eastern i - bengal, bihar
leaders
majnu shah
chirag ali
mass support
demobilised soldiers
displaced farmers
revolt supressed by warren hastings
midnapore(bengal) and dhalbhum(jharkhand) revolt 1776-74
story
z were dispossessed
cordial relations b/w z and ryots
permanent settlement introduced in 1772
z took sides of ryots in case of conflict b/w ryots and b officials
leaders
damodar singh
jagannath dhal
moamarias revolt 1769-99
maomarias(low-caste peasants) revolted against ahom kings of assam
this weekend kingdom to burmese invasion
b helped ahoms
ultimately, kingdom came under b rule
gorukhpur, basti, bahraich CU 1781
oppression(by izaradars - revenue officers) and excessive revenue extraction - to meet maratha and mysore war expenses
z and peasants revolted
violent
revolt of raja of vizianagaram 1794
king(ananda gajapatiraju) with his people revolted against b
raja died in battle of padmanabham(in AP)
kingdom came under b control
revolt by dhudnia wagh, 1799
in bednur(karnataka)
he was a local maratha leader
organised anti b princes to fight against b
eventually killed/crushed by b in 1800
revolt by verma pazhassi raja, (1797,1800-05)
he was king of kottayam(kerela) - dethroned by b after 3rd anglo-mysore war
mass - rack rented peasants
was aka 'pyche raja' or 'kerala simhan' - ie, lion of kerala
died/crushed in by 1805
civilian rebellian in awadh, 1799
led by wajir ali khan
he was dethroned by b
mass - soldiers
uprising in ganjam and gumsur(T.N.), (1800, 1835-37)
led by dispossessed z strikara bhanj(1800) and son dhananjay bhanj(1835-37) and doora bisayi
palamau(jharkhand) uprising 1800-02
led by bhukhan singh against landlordism and feudal system
poligars'/palayakkarargal revolt 1795-1805
region- tinneveli, sivagiri, madurai
meaning/aim
all sections of society revolting against b
pre-colonial period
reasons
high land revenues
corrupt practices and hard attitude of officials