CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND INDIAN TRADITION

WITH SOME EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY DOCUMENTS

Civil Disobedience and Indian Tradition (1971) is the second of Sri Dharampal’s books based on the materials collected in the course of his extensive study in the British archives. It presents documents of an intense civil disobedience struggle that raged in Benaras and several cities of Bihar for nearly two years between 1810 and 1811 against the imposition of a new house tax by the alien British Administration. Indians found the tax to be an innovation and therefore obnoxious. The book anchored the Civil Disobedience of Mahatma Gandhi in an older and, till recently, vibrant tradition.