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Discuss the origins and character of major peasant and tribal uprisings in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Were these protest movements backward-looking?

  • UPSC 1992
  • Indian Response to British Rule

Between the Rangpur Dhing of 1783 and the Munda Ulgulan of 1899-1900, colonial India witnessed an almost continuous chain of agrarian and tribal insurgency whose character shifted markedly even as its underlying grievances persisted.

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  • Origins: A Common Colonial Root
  • Major Uprisings and Their Character
  • The Shift After 1857
  • Were These Movements Backward-Looking?

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