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here’s a silent chapter in Indian history—or perhaps a whole library. Some of the fiercest resistance in Bengal (1771-1809), and not ending with the post-WW-I . If the bows and arrows of the aided Malabar’s Pazhassi Raja in his long guerrilla war against the East India Company (1793-1806), the of Rajputana rose up in 1818, and a series of and unrests led up to the   of 1831. The great of 1855 was the big one, overshadowed only by 1857. The names of its protagonists, and , or that of a stray (left)—bandit to the British, but ‘Robin Hood’ to compatriots—and an iconic remain the few we can write on a monument that’s yet to be made.

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