📍 Nonia Rebellion ✅The Nonias were traditional salt makers, and they also had expertise in producing Shora (saltpetre) — an essential ingredient in making gunpowder. ✅The Nonia Rebellion refers to a series of uprisings by the Nonia community between 1778 and 1800 in Bihar, particularly in the districts of Saran, Vaishali, and Purnia. ✅It was a grassroots movement against the British East India Company’s exploitative revenue policies, and oppression by local zamindars. 📍Buddhu Nonia ✅Buddhu Nonia was a freedom fighter from the Nonia community in Bihar. ✅He actively participated in the Salt Satyagraha movement led by Mahatma Gandhi. ✅He began making salt as an act of civil disobedience and was deceitfully arrested and thrown into a boiling salt cauldron—an act that turned him into a martyr of the freedom movement #history #prelims