Revolutionary, left, peasant and labour movements
Tribal movements after 1857: Birsa Munda, Rampa, Tana Bhagat
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- Birsa Munda's Ulgulan (Great Tumult) 1899-1900 against dikus and missionaries, vision of a golden age, Chotanagpur Tenancy Act 1908
- Rampa rebellion 1922-24 in Godavari hills under Alluri Sitarama Raju against forest laws
- Tana Bhagat movement 1914 among Oraons under Jatra Bhagat, later Gandhian turn
- Kuki rising 1917-19, Bastar 1910, Rani Gaidinliu and the Heraka movement, Jaintia and Garo
- Forest Acts 1865 and 1878, reserved forests, shifting cultivation curbs, moneylenders and contractors as dikus