Question

Explain the farmers revolted in the Indian freedom struggle

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

Post- independence history of India presents many writings on the

Farmers’ movements in India. A number of books and articles have been

published on peasant movements in India1

. They deal with various categories of

struggles in different parts of the country launched by various sections of the

Agrarian population through different periods of British rule. Some of the books

and articles give excellent accounts of specific struggles. But there is no work

which provides an all India picture of tribal and peasants struggles which took

place during British rule2

. Nor do we find an account, which portrays the

historical development of these movements, during the period, which can reflect

the varieties of forms and methods adopted by these movements. Similarly these

is no systematic analytical work which examines these struggles from the point

of view of delineating the role of specific sections and classes of the rural

population which took leadership provided guidance, raised specific issues and

elaborated various forms of mobilization and struggle.

The village of Bijraul, on the outskirts of Meerut district in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, had a small celebration on 10 May to mark the 160th anniversary of the uprising of 1857 - a rebellion against the rule of the British East India Company.

The residents of the village paid tributes to their ancestor Shah Mal for his role in the revolt. He inspired thousands of peasants across nearly 84 villages to leave their fields and take up arms in 1857.

But not many people in India have heard of this prosperous landlord.

"People of the district were in a fever of excitement to know whether 'their raj' or ours was to triumph," wrote Robert Henry Wallace Dunlop, a civil officer, in Service and Adventure with the Khakhee Resallah, a record of the volunteer corps formed to quell the uprising.