how did the chuars ears their livelihood?
Answers
Explanation:
One of the earliest peasant rebellions in India, the ‘Chuar bidroha’, was against the highly exploitative land revenue policy of the British (Roy, 1966). It was the struggle of the downtrodden, toiling masses of the countryside who were exploited, oppressed and finally brutally crushed by the colonial rulers. The movement came alive during the second half of the 18thcentury (1760-1799) across large swathes of forests of southwestern Bengal and today’s Jharkhand area, and became a nuisance to the British administrators. Interestingly, the rebellion had its epicentre at an old temple in Karnagarh, situated 8 km from Medinipur town and 129 km from Kolkata (Guha, 2013). Incidentally, Mahamaya, the main deity of this temple, still has a large number of devotees who throng this area. Historical records show that the temple and its vicinity were one of the key strongholds of the rebels labelled as “Chuars” (meaning “uncivilized” or “barbaric” or “wicked” in Bengali). The rebellion that broke out in Medinipur area spread to Jungle Mahals covering Bankura, Purulia and parts of eastern Bihar. The first wave of the “Chuar Bidroha” (rebellion) took place around 1765 outside the Medinipur area. According to L.S.S. O’Malley, a British administrator who has meticulously recorded the sequence of events in the famous Bengal District Gazetteer of 1911, “In March 1766 Government resolved to send an expedition into the country west and north-west of Midnapore in order to coerce them into paying revenue, and to capture and demolish