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❦Great Bengal Famine
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Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
— William Foster / Charles Fawcett
Calendar records of East India Company activity are valuable for trade, factories, and the commercial expansion that preceded colonial rule.
Research Articles and Papers · Scholarly Articles and Papers
Regional mapping of the rebellion in Rajshahi and North Bengal; strong for local geography, peasant support, and rebel routes.
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Best for named leaders such as Majnu Shah, Musa Shah, Cherag Ali Shah, Karim Shah, and Tipu Shah.
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Useful for the rebellion’s periodization, peasant resistance framing, and the way famine intensified Company conflict.
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— Ghulam Husain Khan Tabatabai
A late eighteenth-century history of Mughal India that is essential for understanding Bengal Nawabs and Plassey.
Research Articles and Papers · Scholarly Articles and Papers
Core historiography of the Fakir-Sannyasi rebellion; useful for the movement’s long arc, leadership, and anti-Company politics.
Reference Sources · Encyclopedia and Archive Reference
Bengal-focused reference on the diwani system, the 1765 agreements, and how revenue authority passed to the East India Company.
Reference Sources · Encyclopedia and Archive Reference
Overview of the Company's shift from trade to colonial rule, including the grant of diwani rights and its economic consequences in Bengal.
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Banglapedia traces the anti-Company alliance of Muslim fakirs and Hindu sannyasis in Bengal from 1760 onward.
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Overview of the 1770 famine in Bengal, including mortality scale and structural causes under early Company rule.
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General Bangladesh history reference useful for political chronology around the Ershad takeover and the 1980s authoritarian period.
Reference Sources · Encyclopedia and Archive Reference
Britannica describes the Fakir-Sannyasi uprisings as a long resistance wave against East India Company authority from 1763 to 1800.
Cultural and Literary Resources · Literature and Cultural Texts
— Edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
A three-volume survey covering the Nawabi era, colonial remaking, and the freedom struggle through 1950.