Tyāgarāja
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Tyāgarāja · 1767–1847
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Adivasi resistance — leaders, with their brothers Chand and Bhairav, of the Santal hūl (rebellion) of 1855–56, the largest armed rising against the East India Company before 1857.
“The hūl was crushed in six months and its leaders hanged, yet it won its central demand anyway: the British had to admit their own courts and police had caused the rising, wall off the Santal country from both, and bar the taking of Santal land — a concession that hardened, law by law, into an Act of 1949 that still stands in Jharkhand.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Two farming brothers summoned ten thousand villagers, declared the Company's rule over, and led bows against muskets. They lost everything — and the defeat forced the British to write a separate law for Santal land that is still in force today.”
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