Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition, with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents c5.s2.2
Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition, with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents c5.s2.2
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c5.s2.2
The immediate cause of the protest was the levy of the house tax. Yet unhappiness and revulsion had been simmering for a considerable time previous to this levy. By 1810, these areas had been under British domination for about 50 years and the people in general (whether at Benares, Bhagalpur or Murshedabad) had begun to be apprehensive of the doings of Government. As stated by the people of Benares, the levy of the house tax felt ‘like salt scattered on a wound.’ The people of Murshedabad felt it like ‘a new oppression’ and stated that it had ‘in truth struck us like a destructive blast.’