Discover Bengal · Unfolded
❦Colonial Conquest, Revenue, and Resistance
From Plassey to agrarian restructuring and anti-colonial resistance
Understand how military conquest became revenue rule and how social resistance evolved in response.
Topic Overview
A structural topic linking conquest, diwani, famine, settlement, and resistance movements in colonial Bengal.
Connected Events
9 events
1757
Battle of Plassey
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1764
Battle of Buxar
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1765
East India Company Gets Diwani Rights in Bengal
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1770
Great Bengal Famine
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1793
Permanent Settlement in Bengal
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1818
Faraizi Movement Begins in Eastern Bengal
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1831
Titumir's Bamboo Fort Uprising
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1857
Sipahi Revolt
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1874
Assam Reorganization and Sylhet's Administrative Detachment
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