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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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Fakir-Sannyasi Resistance

The Fakir-Sannyasi Resistance was a long wave of armed uprisings led by Muslim fakirs and Hindu sannyasis against the East India Company in Bengal. Beginning in 1760 and gaining momentum in 1763, the movement grew out of restrictions on alms collection, revenue pressure, and the social disruption created by Company rule. It continued in recurring phases through the famine years and late eighteenth-century crackdowns, making it one of the earliest sustained anti-colonial resistances in Bengal.

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Great Bengal Famine

The famine of 1770 devastated Bengal, producing catastrophic mortality across agrarian and urban communities. Crop failure, grain-market distortions, and rigid revenue collection under East India Company authority combined to turn environmental stress into a social collapse. The crisis became an early warning of how colonial political economy could magnify human vulnerability.