IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 20, Issue 10, Ver. VI (Oct. 2015) PP 14-16 e-ISSN: 2279-0837, p-ISSN: 2279-0845. www.iosrjournals.org DOI: 10.9790/0837-201061416 www.iosrjournals.org 14 | Page Psychological Aspects of Tantia Bheel’s Revolution Dr. Ushakiran Agrawal Professor (Psychology) Govt. D.B. Girls P.G. College Raipur. Abstract: The present study aims at study of psychological aspect of Tantiya Bheel’s revolution a revolutionary from Nimaad region of M.P., among the five varieties of revolutionaries , The Founders, The Professional Revolutionaries, The Scholars, The Agitators, and The Generals. he comes under agitator category due to the reasons of being socially deprived, The economic conditions of that time resulted in severe social deprivation of peasants and down trodden and thus Tantia became a cult figure Masiah for Bheels and adivasies of central India. KeyWords: The Founders, the Professional Revolutionaries, the Scholars, the Agitators, and the Generals. I. Introduction The Indian Independence Movement has two clear phases demarcated by revolution of 1857. The characters and personalities of leaders of these two phases have vast difference in upbringing, education and approach towards the revolution. The causes of revolution and rivalries were also different to great extent. The Revolution of 1857 was mainly characterized by its leaders being Kings , queens , nobles , religious leaders and forces of princely states and the East India Company as rivalry. Whereas the post 1857 era is ear marked by leaders of great thinking, well educated, scholars and much more organized in the approach. It is the time when common man also started becoming a part to the uprising and with Mahatma Gandhi spearheading the revolution, it ultimately became a common people movement. There were revolutionaries in post 1857 period who resorted to armed revolution and quite a good number of these have laid their life for freedom of the country , but most of them were well travelled, educated , motivated by ideas of various revolutionary movement of the world and were good writers who have created ripples of freedom movement in masses. In post 1857 era some of the leaders lead the revolution in their style and character which was driven by their own ideology. One of such character was Tantia Bheel or Tantia mama , who became icon of common people , somewhat like Robbin hood. He was the result of the atrocities that were inflicted by the British after the 1857 movement was crushed. II. Definition Of Revolution And Revolutionary Mostly the word revolution is used in the sense of socio-political change. However the application of the word is not limited and it encompasses various fields including Science when some theory or discovery changes the present theories and approach . As matter of fact we are always subject to constant revolution. “Any and all instances in which a state or a political regime is overthrown and thereby transformed by a popular movement in an irregular, extra constitutional and/or violent fashion” -Jeff Godwin He further defines “an effort to transform the political institutions and the justifications for political authority in society, accompanied by formal or informal mass mobilization and non institutionalized actions that undermine authorities” -Jeff Godwin Scholars who have studied revolution and are being considered first generation scholars, concluded that revolution has its roots in social psychology. Further an explanation of revolution further can be sought in social behavior theories which may have psychological, sociological and political. Second generation scholars have taken this approach and studied revolution in the back drop of cognitive psychology and frustration - aggression theory of masses. It is interesting and an interdisciplinary avenue to understand revolution on the basis of state of mind of people rather than just saying that revolt occurred due use of Tallow (cow meat) and lard (pork-meat)-greased cartridges. Any revolution can be characterized by two adjectives “rapid” and “fundamental” and these have more consistency in explaining a revolution than any other aspect of revolution. Psychology helps in understanding what people might have undergone pre and during revolutionary period and supplement historical and social studies. A revolutionary could be fearlessly advocating radical changes. He or she may be anarchist, communists, democrat or a person who have revolted against principles of a state or government. Mostly the revolutionaries are defines in terms of their ideologies.