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Dudu Miyan's real name was Muhsinuddin Ahmad. His father [[Haji Shariatullah]] was also a top leader of Faraizi movement. Miyan was born in 1819 in [[Faridpur District|Faridpur district]], [[British India]]. He was educated by his father and then at the age of twelve was sent to Mecca for further studies. He never achieved the levels of scholarship attained by his father but quickly proved himself an energetic leader of peasant movement against the indigo planters and landlords. |
Dudu Miyan's real name was Muhsinuddin Ahmad. His father [[Haji Shariatullah]] was also a top leader of Faraizi movement. Miyan was born in 1819 in [[Faridpur District|Faridpur district]], [[British India]]. He was educated by his father and then at the age of twelve was sent to Mecca for further studies. He never achieved the levels of scholarship attained by his father but quickly proved himself an energetic leader of peasant movement against the indigo planters and landlords. |
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==Movement== |
==Movement== |
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After the death of Shariatullah, Miyan led the movement to a more radical, agrarian character and able to create an effective organizational structure. He |
After the death of Shariatullah, Miyan led the movement to a more radical, agrarian character and able to create an effective organizational structure. He established his own Panchayet and administrative system, enclaves and settlements of a number of persons, into core associations by appointed Khalifah for villages. His policy was to created a state within the state disobeying the British rule or Parmanent Settlement. He organised the oppressed peasantry against the oppressive landlords. In 1938 Miyan called upon his followers not to pay revenue to zaminders. Indigo Kuthiss, were frequently attacked and ransacked raiyats. In retaliation, the landlords and indigo planters tried to contain Dudu Miyan by instituting false cases against him. In 1838, 1844, 1847 he was arrested several times but he became so popular with the peasantry that in those cases, courts seldom found a witness against him. |
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==Death== |
==Death== |
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Dudu Miyan (1819 - 1862) was a leader of Faraizi Movement and peasant uprising in Bengal
Early life
Dudu Miyan's real name was Muhsinuddin Ahmad. His father Haji Shariatullah was also a top leader of Faraizi movement. Miyan was born in 1819 in Faridpur district, British India. He was educated by his father and then at the age of twelve was sent to Mecca for further studies. He never achieved the levels of scholarship attained by his father but quickly proved himself an energetic leader of peasant movement against the indigo planters and landlords.
Movement
After the death of Shariatullah, Miyan led the movement to a more radical, agrarian character and able to create an effective organizational structure. He established his own Panchayet and administrative system, enclaves and settlements of a number of persons, into core associations by appointed Khalifah for villages. His policy was to created a state within the state disobeying the British rule or Parmanent Settlement. He organised the oppressed peasantry against the oppressive landlords. In 1938 Miyan called upon his followers not to pay revenue to zaminders. Indigo Kuthiss, were frequently attacked and ransacked raiyats. In retaliation, the landlords and indigo planters tried to contain Dudu Miyan by instituting false cases against him. In 1838, 1844, 1847 he was arrested several times but he became so popular with the peasantry that in those cases, courts seldom found a witness against him.
Death
At the time of the Great Indian Revolt in 1857, the British government arrested him as precaution and kept him in the Alipore Jail, Kolkata. In 1862 Miyane died at Dhaka.