Write in your own words about the phulaguri Dhawa in 100 words.
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Guwahati, Oct 25: Peasants of a remote and decrepit village, Phulaguri, in central Assam's Nagaon district had dealt the first blow to the British in the Northeast in 1861, but 150 years later there are few in independent India who remember the rebillion.
The revolt, known as 'Phulaguri dhawa', in which a British official was killed and several police officers were injured, was triggered by a ban imposed on opium cultivation and a proposed taxation on betel leaf and nut.
The British crushed the rebellion, but the incident shook the foundation of the British rule in the region all the same, a resident of Phulagari and president of a committee, formed to commemorate the 150 years of the revolt, Hari Kanta Das said.
''It is sad that the state government has forgotten to commemorate the event and honour the martyrs and even the local Congress MLA who had earlier promised to be present at a small function organised by us, failed to attend it,'' Das said.