Here is your Short notes on the Barasat rebellion during The Revolt of 1857

The Wahabi movement was successfully carried to Bengal by Mir Nisar Ali, popularly known as Titumir. Titumir and his followers offered the first armed resistance against the zamindars of Pura who imposed punitive tax on the Wahabis. This sparked off an armed rebellion against the oppressive zamindars under the leadership of Titumir.

Seeing that Titumir’s rebellion had assumed an anti- government character the British employed the military to suppress the rebels.

The British were particularly scared at the defiance of the land reforms introduced by them (in 1793). However, Titumir with his six hundred followers hurriedly built a fortress with bamboo and mud.

This was the famous Banser Kella (bamboo fortress) constructed at Narkelberia, about 10 kiloruetr6s away from Baduria (in present Basirhat of the district of North 24 Parganas,West Bengal).

The standard of revolt raised by Titumir and his followers, and the resistance they offered to the British troops from the bamboo fortress is famous in history as the ‘Barasat Uprising’ of 1831.

Since Narkelberia at that time was within the administrative jurisdiction of the sub-division of Barasat the uprising was famous by that name.