Hada and Mada Miah uprising (1782)

Hada and Mada Miah are recorded as leaders of an anti-British uprising against Robert Lindsay, the East India Company's District Collector of Sylhet, in December 1782. The supplied passages confirm Lindsay's tenure in Sylhet and Company rule there, but do not independently corroborate the uprising's date, the Shahi Eidgah site, or the claim that it was the first anti-British uprising in the subcontinent.

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Background and detail

Background. British rule in Sylhet began in the 18th century under the administration of the East India Company, the English and later British joint-stock company founded in 1600 that gained control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent. Robert Lindsay served as the District Collector of Sylhet from 1778 to 1790, placing the uprising within his tenure.

The Uprising. According to the event's legacy record, Hada and Mada Miah led an armed uprising against Robert Lindsay and his contingents in Sylhet, dated December 16, 1782, at the Sylhet Shahi Eidgah. No supplied passage describes the uprising, its participants, its course, or its outcome; the cited evidence supports only Lindsay's tenure and Company rule in Sylhet, so these details remain uncorroborated.

Aftermath and Significance. The uprising is traditionally described as the first anti-British uprising in the subcontinent, but this claim is not supported by the supplied passages and is therefore flagged as unverified. Lindsay later mentioned Sylhet in his autobiography, Oriental Miscellanies: Anecdotes of Indian Life, describing it as 'a small bazaar (market)'.

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