Battle of Aberdeen

Battle of Aberdeen

Subject – History

Context – Tribal communities, workers, peasants, students and the common people braved imprisonment or bullets and fought for the dream of a freedom that would ensure justice and equality. The Constitution was and remains the culmination of that struggle.

Concept –

• It is a violent clash between the native Adivasi population of the Andaman Islands and the British and the convicts deported to the Penal Colony in the Andaman Islands after 1857.
• In April 1859, a batch of Indian prisoners had escaped the Penal Settlement and wanted to hide in the habitat of the Adivasis. All but one of the convicts was killed, as they had been clearing the forest for creating British settlements.
• A month later, in May 1859, the Adivasis decided to attack the British establishment; but Dudhnath Tiwari, convict no. 276, who they had not killed, betrayed them and reported the plot to the British.
• As a result, 1,500 tribal men faced the bullets fired from the navy schooner Charlotte.