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Discuss briefly the tribal revolts in Eastern India from 1817 to 1857. Were they directed against land lordism and colonialism?

  • UPSC 1988
  • Indian Response to British Rule

The four decades before the Great Revolt of 1857 saw the tribal belt of eastern India — Chotanagpur, Singhbhum, Rajmahal and the Khandesh hills — erupt repeatedly against a new combination of intruders that colonial rule brought in its wake.

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  • The Chain of Revolts, 1817-1857
  • The Common Roots: Land Alienation, Debt and the Colonial State
  • Were They Against Landlordism and Colonialism?

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