The Long Aftermath

On 1 November 1858 the Crown took over from the Company and passed the laws that turned the next forty years into village wars: the Arms Act, the Forest Act, the martial-races army. This chapter follows the people who fought those laws one hill or one district at a time, from the Jaintia hills to Malerkotla, Pune, Rampa, Khandesh, Manipur and the Lushai hills.

Lessons in this chapter

• The Proclamation at Allahabad — 1 November 1858: the Crown takes over, and the four laws that turned the next forty years into village wars
• The Man Who Faced East — U Kiang Nangbah, the Jaintia rising of 1860 to 1862, and a public hanging in the Jowai market
• Sixty-Five Guns at Malerkotla — Ram Singh's boycott of the Raj, the cannon at Malerkotla on 17 and 18 January 1872, and an exile who died at Mergui
• The Diary from Aden — Vasudev Balwant Phadke gave up a clerk's desk in Pune, raised three hundred men in 1879, and wrote the notebook that both convicted and preserved him
• Rampa, 1879 — Tamman Dora, the leader of the Rampa rising of 1879, and the one end the Raj never wrote down
• The Bhil Who Fed the Villages — Tantya Bhil: eleven years in the Nimar and Satpura hills, betrayal by a man who called him brother, and a hanging at Jabalpur on 4 December 1889
• Patriots' Day — Tikendrajit and Thangal General, the Anglo-Manipur War of 1891, and two hangings at the Imphal polo ground on 13 August
• The Chieftainess Who Would Not Feed the Post — Ropuiliani of Denlung, the three durbars she would not attend, and the jail line marked 25 Political

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