Question

Narrate the course of the Pabna Revolt.

Answer 1

1. Large crowds of peasants gathered and marched through villages frightening the zamindars and appealing to other peasants to join with them. Funds were raised from the ryots to meet the costs.
2. The struggle gradually spread throughout Pabna and then to the other districts of East Bengal.
3. Everywhere agrarian leagues were organized. The main form of struggle was that of legal resistance. There was very little violence.
4. It occurred only when the zamindars tried to compel the ryots to submit to their terms by force. There were only a few cases of looting of the houses of the zamindars.
5. A few attacks on police stations took place and the peasants also resisted attempts to execute court decrees. Hardly zamindars or zamindar’s agents were killed or seriously injured.
6. In the course of the movement, the ryots developed a strong awareness of the law and their legal rights and the ability to combine and form associations for peaceful agitation.