The Santal Hul of 1855-1856 and Indigenous Literature: The Writing of Babu Digambar Chakraborty(1849-1913)

The writing, reporting and editing publishedin various Newspapers (English and Bangla) ofCalcutta and its adjoining places by itscorrespondents and editors were perhaps the firstindigenous literature on the Santal Hul of 1855-1856. Samvad Prabhakar,Samva Bhaskar,Samachar Sudhadarshan, Hindu Patriot,Friendof India and Bengal Hurkaru were someimportant and popular Newspapers whereinaccounts of historical events of the Santal Hulwere regularly published in their variouscontemporary issues.But most of theseindigenous writings were overlooked by E.G.Man(1867), W.W.Hunter (1868), C.E.Buckland(1901), F.B. Bradley-Birt(1905), McPherson(1909) ,L.S.S.O’Malley (1910, 1910,1925),Robert Carstairs(1912), ,W.G.Archer andW.J.Culshaw (1945) ,John Houlton (1949) andother British colonial authors who were pioneer inwriting on the Santal Hul. In their writing, thecolonial authors times and again referred to volume26 (January-June 1856) and volume 35 (July