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    Dudu Miyan was a leader of the Faraizi Movement in 19th century Bengal who played an active role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He took over leadership of the movement after his father's death and led it in a more radical, agrarian direction. He established his own administrative system within villages and organized oppressed peasants against oppressive landlords and indigo planters. He was repeatedly arrested by the British authorities but gained widespread popularity among peasants irrespective of religion. He died in 1862 in Dacca at age 42-43 while imprisoned by the British government.

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    Dudu Miyan was a leader of the Faraizi Movement in 19th century Bengal who played an active role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He took over leadership of the movement after his father's death and led it in a more radical, agrarian direction. He established his own administrative system within villages and organized oppressed peasants against oppressive landlords and indigo planters. He was repeatedly arrested by the British authorities but gained widespread popularity among peasants irrespective of religion. He died in 1862 in Dacca at age 42-43 while imprisoned by the British government.

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    Dudu Miyan

    Muḥsinuddīn Aḥmad (1819–1862), better known as Dudu Miyān, was a leader of the Faraizi
    Movement in Bengal. He played an active role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

    Dudu Miyan

    Born Muhsinuddin Ahmad


    1819
    Madaripur, Bengal Presidency, Company rule in
    India
    (present-day Bangladesh)

    Died 1862 (aged 42–43)


    Dacca, Bengal Presidency, British India
    (now Dhaka, Bangladesh)

    Known for Faraizi Movement, Indian Rebellion of 1857

    Early life

    Ahmad was born into a Bengali Muslim family of Taluqdars in Madaripur, Faridpur, in the year
    1819. His father, Haji Shariatullah, was the founder of the Faraizi Movement. After initial paternal
    education, Ahmad was sent to Mecca, Arabia at the age of twelve for further studies. Although
    he never achieved the levels of scholarship attained by his father, he quickly proved himself to be
    a powerful leader of the peasant movements against colonial indigo planters and wealthy
    landlords.[1]
    Movement

    After the death of Shariatullah, Miyan led the movement to a more radical, agrarian character
    and able to create an effective organizational structure. In his view land belonged to those who
    worked it. He established his own administrative system, and appointed a khalifa (leader) for
    each village. His policy was to create a state within the British-ruled state. He organised the
    oppressed peasantry against the oppressive landlords.[2] In 1838, Miyan called upon his
    followers not to pay revenue to zamindars. Indigo Kuthis, were frequently attacked and
    ransacked by raiyats.[3] In retaliation, the landlords and indigo planters tried to contain Miyan by
    instituting cases against him. In 1838, 1844, 1847 he was arrested several times but released
    because he became so popular irrespective of religion with the peasantry that in those cases,
    courts seldom found a witness against him.[4]

    Death

    At the time of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British government arrested him as precaution
    and kept him in the Alipore Jail, Kolkata. He was released in 1859 and rearrested and finally
    freed in 1860. In 1862, Miyan died in Dacca aged 42-43 years.[1]

    References

    1. Volume 3, Kenneth W. Jones (1989). Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India (https://books.g
    oogle.com/books?id=8HV4nHv8urgC&q=Dudu+Miyan&pg=PA21) . ISBN 9780521249867. Retrieved
    May 4, 2018.

    2. U. A. B. Razia Akter Banu (1992). Islam in Bangladesh (https://books.google.com/books?id=XyzqATEDPS


    gC&pg=PA37) . E. J. Brill. pp. 37–38. ISBN 90-04-09497-0. "In Dudu Miyan's view, land belong to those
    who exploited it ... His administrative reforms entailed the division of Faraidi settlement areas into small
    units ... In each of the village units Dudu Miyan appointed a unit khalifah ... Dudu Miyan developed what
    amounted to a virtual parallel government to that of the British ... [The Faraidi movement's] primary
    political goal was to protect the helpless Muslim masses from the miserable conditions created by
    despotic and capricious zamindars of rural Bengal."

    3. "The Faraizi Movement" (https://www.importantindia.com/9674/faraizi-movement/) .


    ImportantIndia.com. December 11, 2013. Retrieved May 4, 2018.

    4. Hardy; Thomas Hardy (1972). The Muslims of British India (https://books.google.com/books?id=RDw4A


    AAAIAAJ&pg=PA56) . CUP Archive. pp. 56–. ISBN 978-0-521-09783-3.
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