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Bengal’s Forgotten Uprisings: The Paik Rebellion
While the Battle of Plassey and the Bengal Famine dominate historical memory, a different kind of war was being waged in the villages of Orissa and western Bengal during the early eighteenth century. This episode explores the Paik Rebellion, a massive armed uprising by the traditional militia class against the Mughal Empire’s heavy taxation and forced labor demands. We trace the life of Madhab Chandra, the rebel leader who organized thousands of Paiks to resist the jagirdari system, and examine how the British East India Company eventually exploited this discontent to secure its own foothold…
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