The Fakir and Sannyasi Uprisings
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8170741092
Length
xviii+141p., Maps; 23cm.
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So long the Fakir and Sannyasi rebellion has been mostly characterised by the historians either as a disturbing law-and-order problem affecting Pax Britannica or as a full-fledged peasant insurrection blossoming into a sort of anti-British nationalist outburst. Dr. Atis K. Dasgupta, in this thesis, has carefully avoided both the extremes. He seeks to locate the essential material basis of the Fakir and Sannyasi uprisings in the context of the new class alignments ...
