Colonial INDIA Rebellions FAKIR & SANNYASI UPRISINGS Map 1st Ed British East Co.

by ATIS K. DASGUPTA

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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } THE FAKIR AND SANNYASI UPRISINGS by ATIS K. DASGUPTA Published by K.P. Bagchi & Company, Calcutta, 1992. First Edition. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Light shelf wear to DJ edges. Octavo, tipped-in folding map, errata, index, 141 pages. Dasgupta's meticulously researched monograph illuminates one of colonial India's earliest and most significant anti-British rebellions, presenting a scholarly reassessment of the 18th-century religious mendicant uprisings that predated the more famous 1857 revolt by nearly a century. This groundbreaking study challenges conventional colonial historiography by repositioning what British administrators dismissed as mere "banditry" as a coherent resistance movement with deep religious and socioeconomic underpinnings. Drawing from previously untapped primary sources including East India Company records, contemporary Bengali accounts, and British administrative correspondence, Dasgupta reconstructs how wandering Fakirs and Sannyasis transformed from peaceful religious ascetics into organized insurgents against expanding Company rule in Bengal between 1763 and 1800. What distinguishes this work is Dasgupta's nuanced analysis of how religious leadership mobilized broader peasant discontent against British economic exploitation, particularly following the devastating 1770 Bengal famine. The author skillfully traces the

• Publisher: K.P. Bagchi & Company,
• Year: 1992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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