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{{Short description|Koli freedom fighter}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2024}}

{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = Bandkari
| name = Naik Honyaji Bhagoji Kengle
| honorific_suffix = Chief of Kengle kolis
| native_name = नायक होन्याजी भागोजी केंगले
| native_name_lang = Hi
| other_names = *''Honya Naik''
*''Honya Koli''
*''Honya Kengale''
| birth_name = Honyaji Bhagoji Kengle
| birth_date = 1836
| birth_place = [[Jambhori]] village, [[Pune]], [[Pune district]], [[British Indian Empire]]
| death_date = 1876
| death_place = Ahmednagar central jail, [[Ahmednagar district]], [[British Indian Empire]]
| death_cause = Hanged
| occupation = [[Agriculturist]]
| years_active = 1872 - 1876
| era = [[British Raj|British era]]
| movement = [[Indian independence movement]]
| criminal_charges = [[Murder]], [[Plundering]]
| criminal_penalty = Hanged to Death
| father = Naik Bhagoji Kengle
}}

The '''Honyaji Bhagoji Kengle''' (also spelled as '''Honya Kengla''',<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Robinson |first=Frederick Bruce |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S9dmbS_n9UEC |title=Adaptation to Colonial Rule by the "wild Tribes" of the Bombay Deccan, 1818-1880: From Political Competition to Social Banditry |publisher=[[University of Minnesota]] |year=1978 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=63–87 |language=en}}</ref> '''Honya Naik''',<ref name=":1" /> '''Honya Kenglia''',<ref name=":2" /> '''Honya Koli'''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kulkarni-Pathare |first=Dr Ravindra Thakur Translated From MARATHI to ENGLISH by Reshma |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WtDQDwAAQBAJ&dq=Honya+Koli&pg=PT311 |title=MAHATMA JYOTIRAO PHULE- english |date=2020-02-17 |publisher=Mehta Publishing House |isbn=978-93-5317-404-0 |location=New Delhi, India |language=en}}</ref>) was [[Koli people|Koli]] [[List of Indian independence activists|freedom activist]] from [[Maharashtra]] who sought [[freedom]] from [[British Raj|British]] [[Colonialism|colonial]] rule in [[India]]. Kengle also fought against [[Sahu]]kars, or [[Loan|Moneylenders]] who were capturing the lands of poor native Indians and British supporting elements. The [[Bombay Presidency|Bombay]] government announced the reward of [[Indian rupee|INR]] 1000 for Honya Kengle dead or alive and 200 - 600 [[Indian rupee sign|INR]] for other revolutionaries. He was labelled as an [[Outlaw]] by British government.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Hardiman |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QNA-AQAAIAAJ |title=Histories for the Subordinated |publisher=[[Seagull Books]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-905422-38-8 |location=[[New Delhi]], [[India]] |pages=95–134 |language=en}}</ref> He led the Koli rebellion from 1872 to 1876.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Krishan |first=Shri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SM9jDwAAQBAJ&dq=honiya+Kengle&pg=PT128 |title=Political Mobilization and Identity in Western India, 1934-47 |date=2005-04-07 |publisher=SAGE Publishing India |isbn=978-93-5280-307-1 |location=New Delhi, India |language=en}}</ref>

Honya Kengla was considered as [[Robin Hood]] of [[Mumbai|Bombay]] and a [[Hero]] of his region.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Charlesworth |first=Neil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jIbRhV00p6AC&dq=honya+Kenglia&pg=PA98 |title=Peasants and Imperial Rule: Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency 1850-1935 |date=2002-07-04 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-521-52640-1 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=98: The classic example occurred in the Deccan between 1873 and 1875 when the Koli dacoit, Honya Kenglia, established himself as Bombay's Robin Hood. Honya's gang, wearing as their Lincoln green a distinctive dress of red military coats, roamed the countryside, robbing moneylenders, firing their houses and often inflicting their own special brand of indignity: the cutting off of noses |language=en}}</ref> He was fully support by Tribal communities of West Ghats.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hardiman |first1=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=biA-AAAAMAAJ |title=Peasant Resistance in India, 1858-1914 |last2=Hardiman |first2=Professor of History David |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-19-562725-1 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=185 |language=en}}</ref>

== Early life ==
The Honya Kengle was born in 1836<ref name=":1" /> in a [[List of Koli people|Koli]] family of [[Jambhori]] village in [[Pune district|Pune]] [[List of districts of Maharashtra|district]] to [[Nayak (title)|Naik]] Bhagoji Kengle<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yang |first=Anand A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DroEAQAAIAAJ |title=Crime and Criminality in British India |publisher=[[Association for Asian Studies]] |year=1985 |isbn=978-0-8165-0951-5 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=175: The rebel leader was identified at his trial as " Honya son of Bhagoji Kengla, age 40, caste [[Koli people|Koli]], occupation [[Cultivator]], resident of Jambhari, [[Khed Taluka]], Poona |language=en}}</ref> who was chief of Mahadev Kolis of Kengle [[clan]].<ref name=":0" />

== Revolutionary activities ==
In 1872, the Honya Kengle took up arms against British rule in Maharashtra mostly in North West Poona.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H8IKAQAAIAAJ |title=The History and Culture of the Indian People: British paramountcy and Indian renaissance, pt. 1 |publisher=[[G. Allen & Unwin]] |year=1951 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=940–941 |language=en}}</ref> He collected a revolutionary army of Kolis in [[Deccan Plateau|Deccan]] and attacked and plundered the British controlled territory in [[Pune district|Pune]], [[Nashik district|Nashik]], [[Thane district|Thana]] and [[Ahmednagar district|Ahmednagar]].<ref name=":0" /> He cut off the Nose of [[Marwari people|Marwadi]] [[Bania (caste)|Baniyas]] because they were in full support of British officials.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sunthankar |first=B. R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OzZuAAAAMAAJ |title=Nineteenth Century History of Maharashtra: 1858-1920 |publisher=Shubhada-Saraswat Prakashan |year=1993 |isbn=978-81-85239-50-7 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=68: the leadership of Honya, an influential Koli chief with a well trained gang, began a series of attacks on moneylenders . Many of them were robbed and the noses of some of them were cut off . These outrages created terror among the |language=en}}</ref>

In 1874, a special British force under [[Colonel]] Scott and Mr. W. F. Sinclair C. S. was despatched to burn down the rebellion. The Koli rebellion under the leadership of Honya Koli was principally directed against the moneylenders. The disturbances merged into the more widespread [[Deccan Riots|Deccan riots]] of 1875.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Brahme |first1=Sulabha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UuJFAAAAYAAJ |title=Agrarian Structure, Movements and Peasant Organisations in India |last2=Parthasarathy |first2=Gogula |last3=Shrimali |first3=P. D. |publisher=V.V. Giri National Labour Institute |year=2004 |isbn=978-81-7827-064-7 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=125 |language=en}}</ref>

== Death ==
In 1876, During the fight between British [[troop]]s and Honiya Kengle's [[revolutionary]] Koli army, they were defeated by troops and Kengle was captured by [[Major (rank)|Major]] H. Daniel but Kengle had become a hero throughout the [[List of districts of Maharashtra|region]]. When he was tried in [[Pune]], the [[jury]] returned a [[verdict]] of not guilty, despite the incriminating evidence against him. The British [[judge]] promptly ordered that Honiya be re tried in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] city. The case was heard there two months later, and Honiya was hanged in Ahmednagar central jail.<ref name=":0" />

== See also ==
*[[Vasudev Balwant Phadke]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*[https://cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Ahmadnagar/his_modern_period.html History of Maharashtra]

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