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Military Grievances in Company Army

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...

May 30, 2015

Barrackpore Mutiny of 1824

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...

May 30, 2015

Vellore Mutiny of 1806

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...

May 30, 2015

Sepoy Mutinies before the Revolt of 1857

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...

May 30, 2015

Surat Salt Agitations against British Policy

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...

May 30, 2015

Kuka Movement in Punjab

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...

May 30, 2015

Moplah Uprisings in Malabar

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...

May 30, 2015

Titu Mir Movement in Bengal

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...

May 30, 2015

Narkelberia Uprising and Religious Mobilisation

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...

May 30, 2015

Types of Non-Banking Financial Companies (NFBC)

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...

May 29, 2015

GK & Current Affairs: May 23, 24, 2015

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...

May 29, 2015

Pagal Panthis and Resistance in North-East Bengal

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...

May 29, 2015