The Faraizi movement among the peasants of eastern Bengal was founded by

The correct answer is B, Haji Shariatullah, who founded the Faraizi movement in the Faridpur region of eastern Bengal. The movement called on Muslims to give up practices it held un-Islamic, and it soon turned into an organised resistance by Muslim peasants to the illegal cesses of Hindu zamindars and to indigo planters. A is wrong in the strict sense: Dudu Mian, Shariatullah's son, led and militarised the movement after his father, but did not found it. C is wrong because Karam Shah founded the Pagal Panthis of the Mymensingh region, a separate movement led later by his son Tipu Shah. D is wrong because Shah Waliullah was the eighteenth-century Delhi theologian whose teachings influenced the Wahabi movement, not the Faraizis. The name comes from faraiz, the obligatory duties of Islam, and the movement combined religious reform with a refusal to pay the illegal cesses that landlords collected from Muslim cultivators.