Faraizi Movement: Haji Shariatullah, Dudu Miyan and the Peasant Organisation of Bengal
The Faraizi movement, founded by Haji Shariatullah in early nineteenth-century East Bengal, began as a call for Muslims to return to the obligatory duties of Islam — and became, under his son Dudu Miyan, a disciplined peasant organisation that ran its own courts and defied the landlords and indigo planters of the Bengal delta.
