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Factors Behind Civil Uprising
- New land revenue settlement, burden of new taxes, summary eviction of peasants from land and encroachment on tribal lands.
- Emergence of a new ruling class like government officials along with moneylenders and merchants side-lined the traditional zamindars and poligars. This class was waiting for an opportunity to settle the scores and restore their lost glory.
- Ruining of Indian handloom and handicraft industries due to a huge influx of British manufactured goods coupled with heavy duties on Indian products and industries.
- Destruction of indigenous industries caused a migration of workers thus resulting in a burden on agriculture.
- Aggravated exploitation of rural society owing to growth of intermediaries like revenue collectors, tenants and money lenders.
- Priestly class lost its source of patronage with the decline of traditional elites. Thus, in return, they instigated hatred against alien rule.
- British rulers remained alien to this land and their disdainful behaviour towards the natives further fuelled the anger.
