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‘Penetration of outsiders – called dikus by the Santhals – completely destroyed their familiar world, and forced them into action to take possession of their lost territory’. Critically examine.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Indian Response to British Rule

The Santhal Hool of 1855–56 confirms the statement's core claim — that the intrusion of dikus (outsiders) dismantled the Santhals' familiar agrarian world and drove them to armed reclamation of lost territory — though the process of dispossession was more layered than a single act of penetration.

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  • How Diku Penetration Destroyed the Santhal World
  • The Turn to Armed Reclamation
  • The Limits of the Reclamation

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