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:
- civil rebellions,
- tribal uprisings, and
- 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 ....