Question

discuss in brief the cause of the revolt of 1857-58 in Assam?​

Answer 1

Mention 1857 , and immediately images of Jhansi ki Rani , Tatya Tope , Nanasahib and other revolutionaries spring to mind. It was after all an event mainly limited to today’s Bihar and UP one would say , some will be bit more positive and say that the event affected the northern parts of India.

Nothing can be further from the truth . For the echoes of the great uprising of ordinary soldiers and princes were heard even in far away Assam ! The proclaimation made in 1857 in name of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar had reached first Calcutta , and from there further east to Guwahati and Dibrugarh. And the architect of all this was one patriot now forgotten from India’s history books – Maniram Dutta Barua , popularly known as Maniram Dewan.