https://epistle.covai.org/posts/Recent content in Posts on EpistleHugoen-usSat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://epistle.covai.org/posts/telangana-peasant-rebellion/Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://epistle.covai.org/posts/telangana-peasant-rebellion/On July 4, 1946, the death of a young peasant leader in Kadavendi ignited a five-year armed struggle against the feudal autocracy of Hyderabad State, redistributing a million acres to the landless.https://epistle.covai.org/posts/warli-adivasi-revolt/Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://epistle.covai.org/posts/warli-adivasi-revolt/Eighty years ago, Adivasis in the Western Ghats rose against a brutal regime of debt bondage and landlords, reshaping the region’s agrarian history.https://epistle.covai.org/posts/punnapra-vayalar-uprising/Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://epistle.covai.org/posts/punnapra-vayalar-uprising/In October 1946, the coir workers and landless peasants of coastal Travancore rose against the autocratic Diwan’s plan for an independent monarchy, facing a military blockade with staves carved from areca palms.https://epistle.covai.org/posts/tebhaga-peasant-movement/Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://epistle.covai.org/posts/tebhaga-peasant-movement/In the winter of 1946, millions of Bengal’s sharecroppers refused to deliver half their crops to landlords, launching an agrarian uprising that crossed communal divides on the eve of Partition.