Recalling Revolts

From 1760 onwards, there are records of resistance struggles against ruthless exploitation under the East India Company. It was ordinary people who came forward to fight, struggling as they were for survival. Among the poorest, and the poorer working people be they tribals, peasants, remnants of indigenous troops the discontent burst into outright rebellion. Their leaders were drawn from the old nawabi and zamindari class who had the fight still left in them