Civil, tribal and religio-political uprisings before 1857
- Sanyasi fakir and paika
- Kol and santhal
- Bhil khond and other tribal
- Wahabi faraizi kuka
- Why early resistance was local, backward-looking and easily suppressed, and why it still mattered
- Poligar resistance: Kattabomman, Oomathurai and Maruthu Pandian; Velu Thampi and the Kundara Proclamation
- Regional resistance before 1857: Pazhassi Raja in Kottayam and Wayanad and the Ahom revolt under Gomdhar Konwar
- Mappila agrarian risings in Malabar before 1857: revenue, tenancy and landlord oppression
- Surat salt-tax protests of 1844 and resistance to standard weights and measures in 1848
- Regional civil uprisings before 1857: revenue grievances, displaced rulers and resistance in Gorakhpur, Vizianagaram, Hathras and Kutch
- Khasi, Singpho and Khampti resistance: colonial roads, outsiders and expansion in the north-east