Grievances
- high LR
- high interest loans
- loss of lands
Actions
- Poona Sarvajanik Sabha 1870 convinced govt to declare that confiscation of land should be last resort
- but moneylenders now refused loans, so Ryots were unable to pay LR
- violent revolt
- but only debt bonds burnt
- aware of the tool of oppression; ryot were not murderers
- Deccan Agriculturist Relief Act 1879: regulated interest rates
- 1896-97: No Tax Campaign when no remission of land revenue