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Phulaguri Uprising (ফুলগুৰি ধেৱা) :-

The first ever peasant movement in the context of Indian freedom movement was the farmer uprising in the Phulaguri area of middle Assam in October 1861 AD. It was also the first ever non-cooperation movement of because the farmers of Phulaguri region had stopped payment of taxes to the British administration and thus openly defied the rulers. The immediate cause of the Phulaguri Uprising was the exorbitant taxes imposed by the British administration on the farmers of Assam. The British administration always acted in the interests of the British tea planters, not the common masses. These tea planters had been suffering from the dearth of labourers. They had to bring labourers from other state at high costs. labourers from other states at high costs. Moreover a large number of such labourers died of unhygienic conditions in the tea estates as malaria was rampant in those areas. So the tea planters thought that it would be better to engage the local people as labourers in their estates. But the indigenous Assamese people were always independent minded. Even the erstwhile Ahom kings could not uproot a farmer from the latter’s homestead as the right of the farmer on his land was considered to be supreme. In this revolt a British official was killed and several police officers were injured,was triggered by a ban imposed on opium cultivation and a proposed on betel leaf and nut.