Peasant Movements

Narkelberia Uprising

• Titu Mir, also known as Mir Nithar Ali (1782–1831), pushed West Bengal's Muslim tenants to rebel against their mostly Hindu landlords who assessed a beard tax on the Faraizis and British indigo growers.
• These uprisings, which are generally considered the first armed peasant uprising against the British, quickly took on a theological bent and eventually merged into the Wahabi movement.

Indigo Revolt (1859-60)

• In Bengal, nearly all of the indigo planters were Europeans who mistreated the locals by forcing them to grow indigo instead of more valuable crops like rice on their estates.
• The planters forced ....