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Around 1865 an awful epidemic was occurred in lower Bengal mainly in Burdwan, Nadia, Hooghly, Midnapore, Birbhum, Kolkata, 24 Parganas, Howrah etc. districts and almost 25 lakh people were died from Burdwan fever within 1870 to 1884. The procession of death made dangerous situation in village to village. The picture of crisis of food, money, medicine, help was very common over the lower Bengal. The growing anti British movement after the 1857 revolt became stopped over the southern Bengal. People did not paid attention on anti-British movement due to heavy sickness. The fatality of Burdwan fever had broken the backbone of the Indian national movement in lower Bengal in this period, because many village leaders of anti-British movement had been died in the terrible fever. So, there was no any anti-British movement in between 1865 to 1900 in lower Bengal.

Burdwan fever, Epidemic, National Movement, sickness, health