Historical Analysis on Swadeshi Movement with special reference to Bankura District

History

To write the history of the freedom movement of Bankura district and to study the spirit of nationalism we should discuss briefly the history of Bankura in the early period. During the Mohammedan rule, the landlords or the local kings were not in agreeing mood to pay tax to the Muslim rulers, though subdued to them by force. They liked to rule freely or independently. King of Bishnupur ruled freely for a long time during the Muslim period. Still now the ruins of many temples, bitch etc. of many independent rulers of the locality may be seen. Even many of the landlords or feudals were dissatisfied to pay the land revenue to the East India Company, in 1832 under the guidance of Ganganarayan Singh the cultivators and three thousand Chuard armies declared revolution against the British. Though this revolution was not the freedom movement, yet it created the nationalism in the mind of the people and gave lesson to the inhabitants of Bankura to fight against the British for their reasonable rights. The people of Bankura also became angry with the Hilkar Sahibs when the Indigo Movement came out in Bengal.

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