Baghi And Bagan : Banditry and Peasantry in Medieval Deccan (1700-1750)

Abstract

Peasants are extremely over-burdened with the heavy taxation; the luxury and livelihood of the state and its officials is totally depended on these peasantry class. The state machinery use maximum nuzzle or suppression to get the revenue and the share of state; which was very high and was unbearable for peasants to pay. After facing of all theseextremities, the common peasants arose and stand up rebellious and shows their opposition as well as dissent against the concealing nature of state. Banditry might be considered as a partof such protest which is against the state. Banditry can be defined as 'socially constructed category' and an instrument for 'social boundary formation' in which people from society came together as a last resort to support their subsistence . In the article