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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2023 — General Studies · Question 145 of 200

Q145
Indian National MovementPeasant, Tribal & Labour Movements
Who started Faraizi movement in Bengal?
  1. a.Titumir
  2. b.Kunwar Singh
  3. c.Digambar Biswas
  4. d.Haji Shariyatullah

Answer: (D) Haji Shariyatullah

The Faraizi movement was started around 1818 by Haji Shariatullah of Faridpur in eastern Bengal; it called on Muslims to perform their obligatory religious duties ("faraiz") and give up un-Islamic practices. Under his son Dudu Miyan it became an agrarian movement of the peasantry against zamindars and indigo planters. Titumir (Mir Nisar Ali) led a separate rising at Narkelberia near Barasat and built the famous bamboo fort (1831). Kunwar Singh of Jagdishpur was a leader of the 1857 revolt in Bihar, and Digambar Biswas, with Bishnu Charan Biswas, led the Indigo Revolt of 1859–60 in Nadia.

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