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 ....
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