Answer:
Bastar
is located in the Southernmost part of Chhattisgarh, borders of Andhra Pradesh,
Odisha and Maharashtra. A number of different communities like Maria and Muria Gonds,
Dhurwars, Bhatras and Halbas live in Bastar who speak different languages but
share common customs and beliefs. They believe that each village was given its
land by the Earth and in return they look after the land and give some
offerings at each agricultural festival.
(i) When the colonial power proposed to reserve two-thirds of the forest
in 1905 and stop shifting cultivation); hunting and collection of forest
product the people of Bastar became worried.
(ii) Some; people were fallowed to stay in 'forest villages
on the condition that they worked for the forest department and protected the forest
from fires. Other people were displaced without any notice or compensation.
(iii) For long the villagers had been suffering from
increased land rents and frequent demands for free labour and goods by colonial
pfficials.-
(iv) Moreover there were two terrible famines, one in
1899-1900 and other m 1907 1908.
(v) People began to gather and discuss these issues in
their village councils, but the initiative was taken by the Dhurwar of Kanger
forest, where reservation first took place;
(iv) In 1910, mango boughs, a lump of earth, chillies and
arrows, began; circulating between villages.
(vii) Bazars were looted, the houses of officials
and traders, schools and police stations were burnt
and robbed and grain redistributed.
(viii) The British: troops suppressed the rebellion.
Adivasis fled in to jungles, their leaders Gunda Dhur was
not captured.
(ix) In a major victory for the rebels, work on reservation
was temporarily suspended and the area to be reserved was reduced' to roughly
half of that planned before 1910.
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