The Native Sepoys formed over eighty-five percent of the East India Company’s armed forces in India. Despite their crucial role in expanding and consolidating British rule, growing systemic...
The Barrackpore Mutiny broke out on November 1, 1824, in Barrackpore, Bengal. It was a major military uprising by native Indian sepoys of the Bengal Native Infantry during...
The Vellore Mutiny broke out on July 10, 1806, in the Vellore Fort near Madras (now Chennai). It represents the first large-scale violent uprising by Indian sepoys against...
The Revolt of 1857 was not an isolated event. It was the culmination of rising discontent within the Native Sepoy regiments of the British East India Company over...
The Surat Salt Agitation of 1840s represents an early urban civil revolt against British economic exploitation in colonial India. Occurring in Surat, a prominent trading center in the...
The Kuka Movement, also known as the Namdhari Movement, emerged in mid-19th century Punjab as a socio-religious reform initiative within Sikhism. It rapidly transformed into a major anti-colonial...
The Moplah (Mappila) Uprisings refer to a series of agrarian and socio-religious armed conflicts by Muslim peasants against Hindu landlords (Jenmis) and British colonial authorities in the Malabar...
The Titu Mir Movement, also known as the Narkelberia Uprising of 1831, was an early 19th-century armed peasant revolt in West Bengal. Led by Mir Nithar Ali, popularly...
The Narkelberia Uprising of 1831 was an early armed peasant revolt against British colonial rule and the zamindari system in Bengal. Led by Mir Nithar Ali, popularly known...
The NBFC sector in India is diverse, comprising various categories of institutions tailored to different functions. The RBI classifies NBFCs on three broad bases: by the nature of...
1. On which date International Day for Biodiversity is observed? [A]May 20 [B]May 21 [C]May 22 [D]May 23 Answer: May 22Notes: International Day for Biological Diversity is observed...
The Pagal Panthi movement was an early 19th-century socio-religious and agrarian revolt that emerged in the Mymensingh district of North-East Bengal. Founded as a reformist religious order, the...