Early Resistance & Regional Powers (1757-1857) (Set 1)

His second uprising began after the Company annexed Wayanad, his traditional territory, and he waged guerrilla war from its forests.

Edachena Kunkan led the capture of Panamaram Fort in 1803, a significant blow to Company control in the region.

He earned the epithet “Kerala Simham,” the Lion of Kerala, for his resistance across both the 1793-97 and 1800-05 uprisings.

The Company refused to recognise her adopted son as heir and moved to annex Kittur, anticipating the later Doctrine of Lapse.

Collector St. John Thackeray was killed in the first battle, and two British officers were taken hostage.

Sangolli Rayanna commanded her forces in both battles and kept up guerrilla resistance after her capture, until his hanging in 1831.

Tikendrajit held the position of Senapati, commander of the Manipuri army, after a 1890 palace revolution installed his brother Kulachandra as Raja.

Chief Commissioner J.W. Quinton arrived in Manipur on 22 March 1891 with troops. On 24 March the British tried to seize Tikendrajit by force. Manipuri soldiers resisted, killing five British officers, including Quinton.

The correct answer is Patriots’ Day. Tikendrajit and Thangal were executed on 13 August 1891. That day is observed as Patriots’ Day in Manipur, and the Shaheed Minar at Bir Tikendrajit Park in Imphal commemorates the martyrs.

Thangal General was hanged alongside Tikendrajit on the same day. Raja Kulachandra Singh was also sentenced to death, but this was commuted to transportation for life.

Queen Victoria consulted Ethel Grimwood, widow of Political Agent Frank Grimwood, who said she did not hold Tikendrajit personally responsible for her husband’s death.

Rajguru served as royal priest and regent of Khurda, under its minor ruler Mukunda Deva II, from 1780.

Rajguru’s uprising predates the 1857 Revolt by more than fifty years, making him one of India’s earliest organised anti-colonial resistance leaders.

Rajguru organised the Paika militia, traditional landed warriors, to resist British encroachment. This same model shaped the later Paika Rebellion of 1817.

Khurda had earlier ceded four Parganas to the Marathas in exchange for military help. When the British took over the region, they refused to return them.

British forces captured Rajguru by treachery near the forests of Ranpur, while he organised further resistance. He was tried and executed at Midnapore on 6 December 1806.

The ryotwari system dismantled the Palegar landholding structure his family depended on, driving him into open revolt.

He raided the Koilakuntla treasury in June 1846 with his commander Vadde Obanna, drawing roughly 5,000 peasants into revolt.

He was executed at Koilakuntla on 22 February 1847, before a crowd of over 2,000 people.

His head was displayed on the fort wall as a deterrent to further revolt, remaining there until 1877.