Tribal & Peasant Revolts (Set 2)

His resistance, active from 1771 to his 1785 capture, predates the Santhal Hul by roughly seventy years.

The Mulshi Satyagraha protested the Tata company’s dam project near Pune, which displaced local farmers. It earned Bapat the title ‘Senapati,’ meaning commander.

The Mulshi Satyagraha ultimately failed. The dam was built, and compensation went mainly to landlords rather than the tenant farmers who had led the protest.

He served as a Muslim scholar and Imam of the Tirurangadi Masjid, before becoming a leader of the rebellion.

The rebellion began at Tirurangadi, growing out of anger fuelled by the wider Khilafat Movement.

He mentored Variyamkunnath Kunjahammed Haji, and together they seized the Eranad and Valluvanad taluks from British control.

He was executed by hanging at Coimbatore in early 1922, with sources differing on the exact date.

The ICHR removed him, along with hundreds of other Moplah Rebellion participants, amid disputes over the rebellion’s association with communal violence against Hindus.

The rebellion’s core grievance was the replacement of the Khuntkatti communal land system by British-imposed Zamindari and Thikadari systems.

Budhu Bhagat was captured and killed alongside two of his sons, Haldhar Bhagat and Giridhar Bhagat, at Silagai on 13 February 1832.

The Kol Rebellion mobilised Kol, Munda, Oraon, Bhumij, and Ho communities together against British-imposed landholding systems.

Rebels particularly targeted Sikh and Muslim thikadars, the contractors responsible for tax collection under the new landholding system.

He raided and looted the Kala Naga Police Station with his cousin Vanhnuailiana in February 1868.

Expanding tea estates in Assam encroached on the Lushais’ traditional hunting grounds, driving much of the resistance.

He joined chief Lalburha in planning resistance to British tax collection during the 1890-92 Lushai Rising.

On 18 May 1918, Pandya led a small group in harvesting onions from a government-attached field, and was immediately arrested.

Mohanlal Pandya was a key organiser of the 1918 Kheda Satyagraha, working alongside fellow Gandhian Ravishankar Maharaj.

Pandya led a small group of seven or eight associates in the onion-harvesting act, framing it as a principled stand rather than theft.

The Moamoria Rebellion was a 36-year internal revolt that badly weakened the Ahom kingdom from within, leaving it exposed to later invasions.

A severe ‘mautam’ famine, tied to the periodic flowering of local bamboo, forced Pawibawia to negotiate a temporary peace with rival chief Kalkhama.