The first war of independence in 1857 was not a sudden eruption. It had been building up over decades of British suppression. “Peasants were forced to move from subsistence agriculture to producing cash crops like jute and indigo. This led to massive famines, one after another,” said documentary filmmaker and oral historian Sohail Hashmi. Krishan Murari reports #theprintaroundtown https://tinyurl.com/yc56a4eh