WAHABI AND FARAZI REBELS OF BENGAL (pdf book)

PREFACE
The Wahabi rising in Barasat (1831) and the Farazi move- ment in Faridpur and other East Bengal districts were two distinctly separate movements. What has prompted the present author to deal with them within the compass of a single work is the fact that they were marked by a common approach, more or less a common programme and a com- mon ideological orientation. In their outward character, both were in the nature of a religious revivalist agitation; in essence, though, both were agrarian movements direct- ed against feudal and colonial forms of exploitation.
It is beyond the scope of the present work to deal with the religious-theological aspects of these movements. The author’s main concern has been to bring out the agrarian content of both these movements which lay obscured behind religious catchwords.
The book is based mainly on unpublished records pre- served in the archives of the Government of West Bengal. Contemporary newspaper reports and articles have some- times been invaluable in filling up the gaps left in the records.
The book is written from a Marxist standpoint. In the concluding chapter, the author has attempted to make a critical estimate of the work done by some Pakistani scholars who have made the same theme the subject of their study but have passed judgments that vary widely from the views held by the present author. Critical refer- ences have also been made to the views of some Indian scholars, betraying ultra-left leanings, who have some- times made sweeping generalisations, not always supported by facts.

WAHABI AND FARAZI REBELS OF BENGAL
NARAHARI KAVIRAJ
April 1982 (P 180)
1982, NARAHARI KAVIRAJ
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