প্রথম শ্রমিক আন্দোলন: ঔপনিবেশিক ভারতের অবিভক্ত মেদিনীপুর জেলা: একটি পর্যালোচনা
Volume-XII, Issue-I, October 2023
Volume-XII, Issue-I, October 2023 | ||
Published Online: 31.10.2023 | Page No: 50-57 | |||
প্রথম
শ্রমিক আন্দোলন: ঔপনিবেশিক ভারতের অবিভক্ত
মেদিনীপুর জেলা: একটি পর্যালোচনা।
স্বপন
দোলাই, গবেষক আদিবাসী
অধ্যয়ন বিভাগ বিদ্যাসাগর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়। | |
The First Labour Movement: A Review of the Undivided Medinipur District of Colonial India Swapan Dolai, Research Scholar, Department of Tribal Studies, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. | |
Midnipur is one of the seats of rebellion, protest and movement. The name of Medinipur has repeatedly come up in the headlines through rebellion and movement since its birth. From the time of the English 'East India Company', the rebellion against the British continued in Medinipur, sometimes in armed or non-violent ways. During the period of East India Company in 1804, the beginning of the struggle movement in Medinipur with the rebellion of angry and deprived malangis (salt workers), later in the freedom movement of the country, the anti-partition movement, non-cooperation movement, boycott of foreign currency, salt satyagraha, August revolution or the post-independence movement from the Quit India movement. During the movement and abolition of zamindari system and Tevaga movement, the protestant and rebellious attitude born in Midnipur has come up again and again in the headlines. The workers who initially prepared from sea water were known as Malangis. After the battle of Palashi, the Malangis had to face many problems. Because the British took control of Bangladesh and started rampant looting in the field of salt like other industries. They deprived the cultivators and traders of all facilities, resulting in a terrible anarchy in salt production and trade as in other sectors. The movement to fulfil the demands of the Malangis lasted for almost twenty years. On April 11, 1799 AD, under the leadership of Malangira Balai Kundu, they went to Calcutta and submitted an application to the Salt Committee (Board). The Malangis' resistance to protests gradually took the form of a grassroots movement, which led them to take an extreme path in pursuing their demands. | |
Keywords: Malangi, Ajura Pratha, Khaladi, Jalpai, Chowki Peon. |