Question

Throw light on the Farazi Movement.

Highlight the different phases of the Farazi Movement under Haji Shariatullah and his son Dudu Mia.

Answer 1

Farazi Movement under Haji Shariatullah:-

The Farazi Movement was launched by Haji Shariatullah in 1818, in the parts of eastern Bengal. The movement advocated the participants to keep themselves away from conflict with the zamindars and subsequently with the British, who favored the zamindars to suppress the peasant uprising.

Farazi Movement under Dudu Mian:-

After the death of Shariatullah in 1839, the movement was led by his son Dudu Mian. He called upon the peasant not to pay tax. The movement became popular on a simple doctrine that land and all wealth should be equally enjoyed by the common mass. Dudu Mian laid emphasis on the egalitarian nature of religion and declared that “Land belongs to God’’ and collecting rent or levying taxes on it was therefore against the divine law. The movement spread far and wide and was joined by a huge number of peasants. There were violent crashes throughout the 1840s and 1850s with the zamindars and planters. The movement continued to resist even after the death of Dudu Mian in 1862.