Civil Uprisings

The establishment of British power in India was a prolonged process with the aim to utilize the resources of India for the development of England and hence accordingly changes were brought in socio-political and economic areas.

• Hence, the discontent of the people broke out into popular uprisings in different parts of India at different points of time in the first hundred years of British rule.
• People’s resistance took three broad forms:
  1. civil rebellions,
  2. tribal uprisings, and
  3. peasant movements.

Civil Uprisings

Sanyasi Rebellion (1763-1800)

• The disastrous famine of 1770 and the harsh economic order of the British compelled a group of sanyasis and fakirs ....