1857-1885

Indian Freedom Struggle

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Indian Economy - Understanding the basics of Indian economic system

With reference to the history of India, “lathiyals (retainers)” were related to which of the following events?

The Revolt of 1857

The Mappila Rebellion of 1921

The Indigo Revolt of 1859 – 60

Birsa Munda’s Revolt of 1899-1900

Indigo revolt of 1859-60 :

In Bengal, the indigo planters, nearly all Europeans, exploited the local peasants by forcing them to grow indigo on their lands instead of the more paying crops like rice.
The planters forced the peasants to take advance sums and enter into fraudulent contracts which were then used against the peasants.
The anger of the peasants exploded in 1859 when, led by Digambar Biswas and Bishnu Biswas of Nadia district
They decided not to grow indigo under duress and resisted the physical pressure of the planters and their lathiyals (retainers) backed by police and the courts.
e ryots replied by going on a rent strike by refusing to pay the enhanced rents and by physically resisting the attempts to evict them.