Revisiting the Early Anti-colonial Rebellions in Bengal and Odisha, 1760–1856

Author:

Sarkar Smritikumar1

Affiliation:

1. Former Vice Chancellor, The University of Burdwan, Rajbati, Burdwan, West Bengal, India

Abstract

This is an outline of the early rebellions against the East India Company that broke out in the region, comprised of the present-day Bangladesh, and Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha. Organised by a wide range of people, from ascetics, peasants, landlords to discontented nobles; these primordial rebellions summed up some of their responses to the new revenue regime, land-settlements, dispossessions, and fiscal issues, in the first hundred years of the company’s rule. The complex composition pattern of the rebellions, including ideological issues, has been analysed with reference to the Sannyasi and Fakir rebellions, due to wide research attention they received earlier. Important shreds of the history of anti-colonialism at the regional level, these rebellions not only represented elements of continuity linking them to the Great Tumult of 1857, but also contributed to the broader national movements.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

History

Reference35 articles.

1. Bhadra Gautam, Iman O Nishan, 20–164. Calcutta, 1994, (in Bengali).

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