The major tribal uprising in British Indian in the 19th century

The tribals may be deliberated the natives of the land and with the their rights which were suppressed. It led to the outbreak of a services of tribal uprisings in the 19th century. The ethnic attempts were a basic feature of the tribal revolts. The rebels saw themselves not as a president class but as having a tribal class which was noticeable unless they co-operated with the British. 

Revolts normally began at a point where the tribals felt so oppressed, that they had no other alternative than to fight. They were in the form of spontaneous attack on outside looting their property and expelling them from their villages. Often religious and charismatic leaders emerged at this stage and promised divine Interference end to their suffering at the hands of outsiders and asked their fellow tribals to rise and rebel against the foreign authority. 

The warfare between the tribals rebels and the British armed forces was totally unequal. However the movement had definitely weaknesses. They were massive in totality but in feet localized and isolated. Their semi-feudal character and backward looking traditional general view does not provide offering any societal alternative. But irrespective of their weakness they were able to establish valuable traditions of local resistance to authoritarianism. 

Other religious and charismatic leaders emerged at the stage and promised a divine intervention and end of all suffering and encouraged the fellow tribals to fight against the foreign authority. The movement of revitalization internal religious and social cultural reforms borrowed elements from Christianity or Hinduism and promised miraculous entry into a golden age. This generally followed in the wake of defeated uprising and murder of tradition chiefs.

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