AGRARIAN DISCONTENT AND THE PEASANTS RESISTANT MOVEMENT OF FRONTIER BENGAL : AN OVERVIEW

A series of Tribal revolt was organized in jungal Mahals and Manbhum (hilly area of south west Bengal)during the colonial period.In 1799 an important tribal revolt was started in jungal mahals led by the jangal zamindar.This rebellion mostly familiar as ?Chuar Rebellion?.Durjan Singh was the leader of this revolt,zaminder of Raipur parganas.On ther other hand in1832 a another tribal revolt was revealed in frontier Bengal due to the British revenue policy led by the Ganganarayan Sing Zaminder of Barabhum Parganas.In 1857 an important agrarian discontent was organized against the British by the tribal chiefs of Panchokote raj Zamindars.These revolts are the symbol Indian freedom Movement. Jungal Mahals literally ,Jangal Estate?, was a district formed by the British Government in 1805 for the interest of the British colonial power.After Ganganarayan Hungama in the Barabhum Estae the British Government realized the serious situation of jungal Mahals and for controlling the rebellious condition of that area. rebellion The Junglmahas district basically familiar as hilly area.Presently,modern Bankua,Purulia and Midnapore district is situated in this region.Jungal mahal the the adjoining part of Chhotanagpur plateau and mostly populated by the tribes.Not only the tribes but also some other non-tribal communities resided in this region from the very beginning. Some tribal Zamindari chiefs was the ruler of this ?Bhum suffix? area.During the zamindari era not a single revolt was organized by the tribes against the zamindars.Because a healthy socio-economic atmosphere were there.It was zamindari chiefs who appreciated for the development of the tribes both the socio and economics condition.The British East India Company,After receiving the Great Dewani of 1765 tried to establish their power in this region,and tried to establish a new revenue system on the peoples of that area that was extreeme and was unbearable. As a result all the peoples they rose their voice against the British revenue policy led by the Zaminadrs.It?s have a glorious past history of anti-British struggles for independence.It is fact that,from the last half of the eightieth century a series of Anti-British rebellion was revealed by the rebellious peoples of the jungal Mahals.They truly understood the independence.Different historian they did not pay much attention to the rebellions in proper ways.In their writings we have seen some limitation that was not a historic analysis.Through this article we will try to reevaluate thse Tribal resistant movement.