Narahari Kaviraj has called the Rangpur uprising to be the first formidable peasant uprising against the rule of the East India Company. Several factors may be assigned to the Rangpur uprising of 1783. First, the period of Warren Has longs was marked by several experiments in land settlement. Under the Ijaradari system land was farmed out for, say, one or five years.
Naturally the ijaradar war,ted to squeeze out as much money as possible during the period for which the land was taken by him. Thus ijaradar was basically a speculator in land. The Rangpur uprising took place because the burden of revenue was placed at the highest on the zamindars.
Second, failure to pay revenue would deprive the zamindar of his estate. Third, alongside the revenue other illegal demands made the total demand so high that the ryots were unable to pay even after selling their wives and children. Fourth, as remedial measures the ryots and the zamindars combined to rebel against the ijaradar, in this case Devi Singh, the ijaradar of Rangpur and Dinajpur.