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“The Santhal hool began in July 1855. The core of the movement was economic, the basic cause of the uprising was agrarian discontent.” Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Indian Response to British Rule

The Santhal Hool of 1855–56, though often remembered alongside the Revolt of 1857 as an anti-colonial upheaval, was at its root an agrarian rebellion — a response to the systematic dispossession of Santhal land and livelihood rather than a purely political challenge to British sovereignty.

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  • The Making of Agrarian Discontent
  • The Uprising Itself
  • The Economic Core Confirmed by the Colonial Response

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