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Saturday, November 1, 2014

PEASANT MOVEMENTS IN INDIA

MOVEMENT - REGION - YEAR -  LEADER - OBJECTIVE

★  Titu Mir’s Movement
☆  West Bengal
☆  1782-1831
☆  Mir Nathar Ali or Titu Mir
☆  Against Hindu landlords who imposed beared tax on the Farazis

★  Pagal Panthis Movement
☆  Hajong & Garo Tribes Mymensingh district, Bengal
☆  1825-1835
☆  Karam Shah and Tipu Shah
☆  Against hike in rents;the movement was violently suppressed

★  Moplah Uprising 
☆  Malabar 
☆  1836-1854
☆  Against rise in revenue demand and reduction of field size

★  Indigo Revolt
☆  Nadia District
☆  1859-1869
☆  Dagambar and Bishnu Biswas
☆  Against terms imposed by European indigo planters; Indigo commission(1860) set up to view the situation

★  Deccan Peasants Uprising
☆  Kardeh Village and Poona in Maharashtra 
☆  1875
☆  Against corrupt monylenders (Gujarati and Marwari); Agriculturist Relief Act (1879) passed.

★  Phadke’s Ramosi Uprising
☆  Ramosi, Maharashtra
☆  1877-1887
☆  Wesudeo Balwant Phadke
☆  Against the British failure to take up anti-famine measures.

★  Pabna Agrarian Uprising
☆  Pabna District,east Bengal (Now in Bangladesh)
☆  1873
☆  Shah Chandra Roy, Shambhu Pal Khoodi Mollah and supported by B.C Chatterjee and R.C Dutt
☆  Against POLICIES OF Zamindars to prevent occupants from acquiring occupancy rights, Bengal tenancy Act (1885) passed

★  Punjab’s Peasant’s Revolt
☆  Punjab
☆  Last decade of 19th  century
☆  Against prospect of losing their land ; the Punjab Land Alienation Act (1900 passed,imposed regulations on sale and mortage of land and revenue demands)

★  Poona Sarvajanik Sabha
☆  District of Thana, Colaba and Ratnagiri
☆  1870
☆  M.G Ranade
☆  To popularize the peasants legal rights 

★  Champaran Satyagraha 
☆  Champaran, Bihar
☆  1917
☆  Peasants
☆  Against the tinkathia system imposed by the European INDIGO Planters; the Champaran Agrarian Act abolished the tinkathaia system

★  Kheda Satyagraha
☆  Kheda ,Gujarat
☆  1918
☆  Peasants led by Gandhi
☆  Against ignored appeals for remission of land revenue in case of crop failures; the demands were finally fulfilled.

★  U.P kisan Sabha  
☆  United Province
☆  1918
☆  Indra Narain Dwivedi and Madan Mohan Malviya

★  Awadh Peasant Movement 
☆  Barielly-Pratapgarh region
☆  1918

★  Oudh Kisan Sabha
☆  Oudh 
☆  1920
☆  Nehru and Baba Ram Chandra

★  Andhra Ryots Association 
☆  Andhra 
☆  1928
☆  N.G Ranga
☆  Accepted Abolition of Zamindari

★  All India Kissan Sabha
☆  Apex Organization of Peasants
☆  1936
☆  Swami Sahajananda
☆  Protection of peasants from Economic Exploitation

★  Bardoli Satyagraha
☆  Surat,Gujarat
☆  1928
☆  Kunbi-Patidar Peasants and untouchables supported by Mehta brothers, Vallabhabhai Patel
☆  Against oppression by upper caste and hike in revenue by 22 percent by the Bombay government; the revenue was brought down to 6.03 %

★  Eka Movement
☆  Hardoi, Barabanki and Sitapur Districts
☆  1921-1922
☆  Members of Pasi and Ahir castes
☆  Against hike in rents

★  Tebhaga Movement
☆  Bengal
☆  1946
☆  By poor peasants and tenants and Bargardars or share-croppers
☆  Against Zamindars  and monylenders ; Bargardari Bill was passed

★  Telangana insurrection
☆  Hyderabad
☆  1946-1951
☆  Against Practices of monylenders and officials of the Nizam of Hyderabad

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