Dudu Miyan
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Dudu Miyan 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 agrarian character and able to create an effective organizational structure. He organised his own Panchayet system, the Faraizi 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 retaliation, the landlords and indigo planters tried to contain Dudu Miyan by instituting false cases against him. However, he became so popular with the peasantry that in the cases, courts seldom found a witness against him.