UPSC CDS 1 2021 GK Paper

The Sannyasi& Fakir Rebellion took place in the early colonial rule in Bengal during the rule of Warren Hasting. The rebellion started in the year 1750 onwards but took a violent turn since 1773 when Warren Hastings attained the Governor-Generalship of Bengal. The movement covered an ample range of Bengal and Bihar and continued for a long time
Between the Hindu Sanyasis the akharas ofDashanami Sampradaya were main participants and even there were several Shaivite Naga Sanyasis who established into armed bands.
Majnu Shah, the leader of a large group of fakirs who were travelling via Bengal, claimed in the year 1772 that 150 of them had been killed without cause in the past year. Such repression was one of the reasons which result in distress leading to violence, especially in Natore in Rangpur, now in present-day Bangladesh.