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The historical significance of tribal and peasant uprisings in India ‘lies in that they established strong and valuable traditions of resistance to British rule’. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Indian Response to British Rule

Across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, long before organised nationalist politics took shape, India's countryside repeatedly rose in arms against colonial exploitation, and the cumulative weight of these risings deserves to be read as a formative inheritance for later anti-colonial struggle.

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  • The Range and Character of the Uprisings
  • Reading These Movements as "Traditions of Resistance"
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