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Colonial capture and resistance
1857
Major
Colonial Rule and Resistance
The Sipahi Revolt of 1857 was a major anti-colonial rupture against East India Company rule. Though centered in North India, its shockwaves reshaped imperial governance, military policy, and political imagination across the subcontinent, including Bengal. It marked an early, large-scale convergence of armed resistance, local grievances, and symbolic claims to self-rule.
1859-1860
High
Colonial Rule and Resistance
The Indigo Revolt mobilized peasants in Bengal against exploitative planter systems, combining local resistance, legal contestation, and public debate in colonial society.
State, society, and political change
1861
High
Historical Transitions
Indian Councils Act and Limited Representation in Bengal was a significant turning point in the political and social trajectory of Bengal/Bangladesh.
Colonial capture and resistance
1864-1865
High
Colonial Rule and Resistance
The Duar War of 1864-65 was fought between British India and Bhutan over the Duars frontier. Its settlement transferred Bengal Duars territories into British-controlled arrangements and reshaped the northern frontier.
1873-1876
High
Colonial Rule and Resistance
From 1873, peasants in Pabna organized rent resistance and legal agitation against zamindari exactions. The movement combined collective organization, litigation, and refusal of enhanced rents, becoming one of the major agrarian mobilizations in colonial Bengal.
1874
High
Colonial Rule and Resistance
In 1874, the British administration separated Assam from Bengal and attached Sylhet and Cachar to the new Chief Commissioner's Province of Assam. The move was presented as administrative reform, but it carried lasting consequences for language, governance, and regional political identity in the Bengal-Assam frontier.