Civil and Peasant Uprising

1763-1800

Bhawani Pathak

Debi Chaudhurani

Chirag Shah

Majanun Shah

Anandamath based on Sanyasi revolt by Bankim Chandra

Devi Chaudhurani – Bankim Chandra

1766-74

Revolt in Midnapore and Dhalbhum

Damodar Singh

Jagannath Dhal

 

1769-99

Revolt of Moamarias

 

Rangpur (now in Bangladesh) and Jorhat

Against Ahom kings of Assam

Moamarias were low-caste peasants followed teachings of Aniruddhadeva (1553-1624)

1781

Civil Uprisings in Gorakhpur, Basti and Bahraich

 

zamindars and cultivators rose against land revenue

1794

Vizayaramaraju

English went on to demand a tribute of 3 lakh rupees

1795-1805

Poligars’ Revolt

Kattabomman

1797-1805

Resistance of Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja

Kerala Simham

 

1799

Revolt of Dhundia in Bednur

1799

Civil Rebellion in Awadh

Wazir Ali Khan

Massacre of Benares

1800

1835-37

Uprisings in Ganjam and Gumsur

Strikara Bhanj

Dhananjaya Bhanj

 

1800-02

Uprisings in Palamau

Bhukhan Singh

Jharkhand

1809

Uprising in Bhiwani

 

Jats of Haryana

1808-09

Velu Thampi

Kingdom of Travancore, Kerala

Velu Thampi addressed a gathering in Kundara known as the Kundara Proclamation

1808-12

Disturbances in Bundelkhand

Bundelkhand

1813-34

Parlakimedi Outbreak

Narayan Deo

1816-32

Kutch Rebellion

Kutch

1816

Rising at Bareilly

 

imposition of the police tax

1817

Upsurge in Hathras

 

Uttar Pradesh

1817

Jagabandhu

Raja of Khurda

Orissa, Jagabandhu-1817

Paiks of Odisha were the traditional landed militia

1818-20

Waghera Rising

 

Baroda region of Gujarat

1827-33

Raju Rebellion

Birabhadra Raju

Visakhapatnam

1828

Ahom Revolt

Gomdhar Konwar

Assam

1829

Gumsur outbreak

Dhananjaya Bhooja

Ganjam, Orissa

1835

Palakonda Outbreak

 

Andhra Pradesh

Revolt by Zamindars

1840

Surat Salt Agitations

 

government’s step to raise the salt duty from 50 paise to one rupee

1840

Kittur Rising

Surendra Sai

Sambalpur, Orissa

1842

Sambalpur outbreaks

Dhar Rao Pawar

Satara, Maharashtra

1844

Satara Disturbance

Bundela Revolt

Mahukar Shah

Jawarhir Singh

Bundelkhand

1844

Gadkari Revolt

 

Kolhapur of Maharashtra;

Gadakaris, a hereditary military class

1844-59

Savantvadi Revolts

Phond Savant

Subana Nikam

North Konkan Coast

1830-61

Syed Ahmed of Rai Bareilly

Bihar, Bengal, North West Frontier Province, Punjab

an Islamist revivalist movement

1840-72

Bhagat Jawahar Mal

Ram Singh

Punjab

A religious movement

1827-1831

Titu Mir

West Bengal

against landlords, mainly Hindu, for high tax on the Faraizis, and indigo planters

1st armed peasant uprising against the British

later merged into Wahabi movement

1820-60

Dudhu Mian

Muslim sect founded by Haji Shariat-Allah

Faridpur in Bengal

1825-35

Pagal Panthis

Karam Shah

Tipu

Garo tribes of Mymensingh district, Bengal

1836-54

Moplah Uprisings

 

Malabar, Kerala

1859

Digambar Biswas

Bishnu Biswas

Started in Nadia, Bengal

Got support from bengali intelligentsia in newspapers, mass meetings and legal battles

Government appointed an indigo commission1869

Indigo cultivation was wiped out from Bengal by end of 1860s

Nil Darpan, 1869 written on this

1874-85

Pabna Agrarian Leagues

 

Bengal

1867

Deccan Riots

 

social boycott villages of Poona, Ahmednagar, Sholapur and Satara

social boycott transformed intoriots and attacks on moneylenders

Deccan Agriculturists Relief Act was passed in 1879

1890-1900

Peasant unrest in Punjab

 

Against money lenders

1917

Champaran

Gandhiji

Bihar

1918-22

Kisan Sabha Movement

Gauri Shankar Mishra

Indra Narayan Dwivedi

Protest movement in the

Uttar Pradesh

passing of the Awadh Rent (Amendment) Act

1918

Khaira Satyagraha

Gandhiji

Gujrat

1921

Madari Pasi

Hardoi, Bahraich, Sitapur – UP

1921

Kunhammad Haji

Ali Musaliar

Sithi Koya

South Malabar, Kerala

1928

Vallabhbhai Patel

No revenue campaign

Gujrat

1936

Swami Sahjan Saraswati

N.G. Ranga

Started in Luknow

kisan manifesto was issued by Indulal Yagnik

It did notable work during the famine of 1943

July 1946

Telangana Movement

Asajahi Nizams

Combination of religious-linguistic domination

Cleared the way for the formation of Andhra Pradesh on linguistic lines

Sept 1946

Kisan Sabha

Bengal

urban student militias went to countryside to organise the bargardars

Central slogan was “nij khamare dhan tolo”