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Nagaon, Assam to write its own history of Phulaguri Dhawa 1861: an example Bihar could follow!
Nagaon, Assam to write its own history of Phulaguri Dhawa 1861: an example Bihar could follow!
Nagaon: according to a news report, The Nagaon district administration has formulated a plan to document the historical details of Assam’s first peasant revolt called Phulaguri Dhawa that took place 150 years ago. The bare outlines of the events are as follows – on October 18, 1861, a large number of peasants killed then deputy commissioner Lt Singer at Phulaguri, during a protest against the ban on poppy cultivation. Now the district administration plans to reconstruct the full history...