The sepoys at Vellore mutinied against the new dress code, which prohibited Indians from wearing religious marks on their foreheads and having whiskers on their chin, while proposing to replace their turbans with a round hat. It was feared that the dress code was part of their effort to convert soldiers to Christianity.

British claimed themselves as paramount, exercising supreme authority. New territories were annexed on the grounds that the native rulers were inept.

(i) The Munda people were also forcefully recruited as indentured labourers to work on plantations.
(ii) In the 1890s tribal chiefs offered resistance against the alienation of tribal people from their land and imposition of bethbegari or forced labour.

(i) In response villages were raided and properties destroyed by the British.
(ii) In 1855 an act was passed to regulate the territories occupied by the Santhals.
(iii) The Act formed the territory into a separate division called Santhal Pargana division.

(i) After the death of Shariatullah the Faraizi rebellion was led by his son Dudu Mian who called upon the peasants not to pay tax.
(ii) It gained popularity on a simple doctrine that land and all wealth should be equally I enjoyed by the common folk.
(iii) Dudu Mian laid emphasis on the egalitarian nature of religion and declared that "Land belongs to God", and collecting rent or levying taxes on it was therefore against divine law.
(iv) Large numbers of peasants were mobilised through a network of village organisations.
(v) After the death of Dudu Mian in 1862, the was revived in the 1870s by Noah Mian.