Socio-Religious Movements

Fakir Uprising

  1. Fakirs were a group of wandering Muslim religious mendicants. Shortly after the annexation of Bengal in 1776-77, Majnum Shah, the leader of these fakirs, began to levy contributions on the zamindars and peasants and, defied the British Authority.
  2. After Majnum Shah’s death, Chirag Ali shah, supported by Pathans, Rajputs and the disbanded Indian soldiers extended the operations to the northern districts of Bengal. There were a number of skirmishes between the fakirs and the Company’s troops. The fakirs were finally brought under the control at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Sanyasi Uprising (1763-1800)


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