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The establishment of British Raz greatly threatened the political autonomy of the tribals and their control over their resources. Advent of the non-tribal agents with their colonial masters too brought severe dislocations in their community life. The tribals resented such interferences of the outsiders including the Britishers. As a consequence, they revolted against both of them—the British and the non-tribal agents present in their areas. This is the general notion one gets from study of the history of Tribe–British relations. In addition to general understanding of relations, there are instances of tribals fighting for the local rulers whose power the British subjugated or tried to subjugate. One of such instances is the Bhuiyan rebellion of Keonjhar and Bonai. The paper makes an attempt to present the triadic relations among the British, the local king and the Bhuiyans through the study of the rebellion of the Bhuyians.
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Notes
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Personal interview with Mrs. B.L. Deo, Reader in Political Science, Municipal college and a member, Bonai Royal family.
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Reports on the administration of Bonai state 1945–46, courtesy Mr. Gananath Dandia Retired O.A.S. Officer, Bonai.
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Personal interview with Mrs. B.L. Deo, Reader in Political Science, Municipal college and a member, Bonai Royal family.
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Personal interview with Mrs. B.L. Deo reader in Pol. Sci., Municipal College and a member, Bonai Royal family.
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The actual name is Dhanurjay Narayan Bhanja.
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fans.
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fly whisk.
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parasol.
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turban.
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Orissa records Keonjhar papers no. 22, 1 April 1870. Bhubaneswar: State Archive.
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Utkal Deepika was the first Odia newspaper, a weekly which was started on 4 August 1866.
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See APPENDIX- IV, Report on Lieutenant Colonel T. Dalton’s Tour in Bonai and Gangpur.
during 1863–64 in ODG (nd,: 48–75).
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Typically, a small rent/tax paid by an occupant of freehold or leased land in lieu of services which might be required of them. For example, the Bhuyan samant of village Kaleiposh was a freeholder of land. In lieu of his service at the time of coronation, he paid a quint rent on his bhogra (free holing) land (field data).
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see APPENDIX- III, Tour Diary of J. R. Ouesley on Bonai, 1840 (ODG nd.: 66).
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Mallick, P. (2021). The Raz, the Rajas and the Bhuiyans: Revisiting the Kenonjhar Rebellion of 1867 and Its Impact on Bonai. In: Behera, M.C. (eds) Tribe-British Relations in India. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3424-6_10
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