Peasant Movement

• Land Revenue system
• Repeated Crop failure
• Forced eviction 
• Bonded labours

• The Faqir and Sanyasi Rebellions (1770–1820s): 
• Bengal increased land revenue and the exploitation of the peasants
• Bengal famine of 1770 led peasants whose lands were confiscated, displaced zamindars, disbanded soldiers and poor to come together in a rebellion. 
• joined by the Sanyasis and Fakirs.
• The Indigo Rebellion (1859-1862): 
• zamindars and peasants forced to pay high taxes and grow commercial crops. 
• Peasants launched a movement for non-cultivation of indigo in Bengal. 
• Faraizi Movement (1838-1848): 
• first ever no-tax campaign led by Shariatullah Khan and Dadu Mian. 
• fought heroically with the armed group of Indigo planters and zamindars. 
• cultivators of Bengal against the tyranny and illegal extractions by the landlords
• Wahabi Movement (1830’s-1860’s): 
• led by Syed Ahmed Barelvi of Rae Bareilly, 
• influenced by the teachings of Abdul Wahab of Arabia and Shah Waliullah, a Delhi saint.
• religious, class struggle, especially in Bengal.
• Irrespective of communal distinctions, peasants united against their landlords.
• Pabna Agrarian Unrest: 
• Against zamindars increasing rent beyond legal limits & prevent the tenants from acquiring occupancy right under Act X of 1859. 
• May 1873, an agrarian league was formed at Yusuf Shahi Pargana in Pabna district of East Bengal 
• Deccan Riots:
• Pune and Ahmednagar districts of Maharashtra in 1875 
• high land revenue in the Ryotwari System.