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Effects of Native Indian Military Strategy on Native Colonial Indian Insurgency

Author(s) Mr. KRISHNA MURMU
Country India
Abstract This paper looks at the strategic and tactical elements of tribal insurgencies in colonial India. It showcases the native warfare that became a part of the resistance movements that occurred in the mid-eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. It talks about such major rebellions as the Santal Hul of the four brothers Murmu, Sidhu, Kanhu, and Chand, together with their sisters Phulo and Jhano (1855-56), the Kol rebellion and Khond rebellion, the Rampa revolts, and the Munda Ulgulan led by Birsa Munda (1899-1900). This paper has argued that indigenous strategies, including the use of terrain-based warfare, ambushing using small units, decentralized leadership, mobilization through rituals, and the use of low-logistics warfare were critical in prolonging conflicts. Such strategies led to changes in colonial administrative, legal and military strategies. Instead of perceiving tribal revolts as unplanned or primitive in terms of military organization, this paper places indigenous warfare in the frameworks of ecological knowledge system, social structure, and political consciousness. It also describes the development of colonial counterinsurgency policies, more specifically forest policy and punitive expeditions as a direct response to these operational problems. These changes brought perennial effects on the land law, forest policy and tribal political identity.
Keywords Tribal Insurgency: Indigenous Warfare: Santal Hul: Birsa Munda: Guerrilla Tactics: Colonial Counterinsurgency: Forest Frontiers: Chotanagpur: Military Anthropology.
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Published In Volume 8, Issue 1, January-February 2026
Published On 2026-02-06
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