Describe the Birsa Munda Revolt of 1895-1901.
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Birsa Munda Revolt :-
The British Colonial System intensified the transformation of the tribal agrarian system into feudal state. As the tribal people with their primitive technology could not generate a surplus, non-tribal peasantry were invited by the chiefs in Chhotanagpur to settle on and cultivate the lands. This led to alienation of the lands held by the tribal people. The new class of 'Thekedars' was of more rapacious kind and eager to make most of their possessions.
To the twin challenges of agrarian breakdown and culture change, Birsa Munda and other tribal people responded through a series of revolts and uprising under his leadership. The movement sought to assert rights of the Mundas as the real proprietors of the soil, and the expulsion of middlemen and the British. Birsa Munda aroused he mindset of tribal people and mobilized them in a small town of Chhotanagpur and was a terror to the British rulers. After his death in British captivity in 1900, the movement faded out but the movement was significant in two ways. First, it forced the Colonial Government to introduce laws so that the land of the tribal people could not be easily taken away by the 'Dikus' (Outsiders). Second, it showed once again that the tribal people had the capacity to protest against injustice and express their anger against colonial rule.
The British Colonial System intensified the transformation of the tribal agrarian system into feudal state. As the tribal people with their primitive technology could not generate a surplus, non-tribal peasantry were invited by the chiefs in Chhotanagpur to settle on and cultivate the lands. This led to alienation of the lands held by the tribal people. The new class of 'Thekedars' was of more rapacious kind and eager to make most of their possessions.
To the twin challenges of agrarian breakdown and culture change, Birsa Munda and other tribal people responded through a series of revolts and uprising under his leadership. The movement sought to assert rights of the Mundas as the real proprietors of the soil, and the expulsion of middlemen and the British. Birsa Munda aroused he mindset of tribal people and mobilized them in a small town of Chhotanagpur and was a terror to the British rulers. After his death in British captivity in 1900, the movement faded out but the movement was significant in two ways. First, it forced the Colonial Government to introduce laws so that the land of the tribal people could not be easily taken away by the 'Dikus' (Outsiders). Second, it showed once again that the tribal people had the capacity to protest against injustice and express their anger against colonial rule.
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