Birsa Munda's Ulgulan led the government to pass which law?
- A.The Champaran Agrarian Act, 1918
- B.The Chotanagpur Tenancy Act, 1908
- C.The Bengal Tenancy Act, 1885
- D.The Santhal Parganas Act, 1855
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act, 1908. The rising of 1899 and 1900 forced the administration to look at the loss of tribal land, and the Act of 1908 recognised the khuntkatti right by which Munda families held land collectively, restricted its transfer to outsiders and ended the forced labour known as beth begari. It remains one of the most cited protective tenancy laws in India.
Option A is wrong because the Champaran Agrarian Act of 1918 ended the tinkathia system in the indigo districts of north Bihar. Option C is wrong because the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 was a general tenancy law passed before the Ulgulan. Option D is wrong because the separation of Santhal Parganas in 1855 followed the Santhal Hul, not Birsa's movement.
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Practice Questions
View allWho persuaded Mahatma Gandhi to come to Champaran, and in which year did Gandhi arrive?
- A.Rajendra Prasad, in 1915
- B.Raj Kumar Shukla, in 1917
- C.Anugrah Narayan Sinha, in 1920
- D.Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, in 1929
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Shukla was a cultivator of Champaran who followed Gandhi from the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916 until he agreed to see the indigo districts for himself.
Read the full explanation →The tinkathia system of Champaran required a tenant to do what?
- A.Pay three-fourths of his produce as rent
- B.Grow indigo on three kathas out of every twenty kathas
- C.Work three days a month without wages for the planter
- D.Surrender three bighas of land to the zamindar
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Twenty kathas made a bigha, so the tenant had to put about a seventh of his holding under indigo for the European planter, on terms the planter fixed, and pay a string of illegal cesses besides.
Read the full explanation →The Santhal Hul of 1855 and 1856 was led by which pair of brothers?
- A.Sidhu and Kanhu
- B.Buddho and Joa Bhagat
- C.Birsa and Gaya Munda
- D.Jatra and Turia Oraon
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The Santhals of the Damin-i-Koh, pressed by moneylenders, revenue farmers and the railway contractors, rose under the brothers Sidhu and Kanhu, with Chand and Bhairav beside them, and declared an end to Company rule in their country in 1855.
Read the full explanation →Birsa Munda's movement against the loss of tribal land is known by which name?
- A.Hul
- B.Ulgulan
- C.Bakasht
- D.Tana
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The word means a great tumult or upheaval in Mundari, and it is the name given to Birsa Munda's rising of 1899 and 1900 against landlords, contractors and missionaries, and above all against the destruction of the khuntkatti system under which Munda families held land collectively.
Read the full explanation →Who founded the Bihar Pradesh Kisan Sabha in 1929?
- A.Karyanand Sharma
- B.Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
- C.Yadunandan Sharma
- D.Rahul Sankrityayan
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A sanyasi turned organiser, he built the Bihar Pradesh Kisan Sabha in 1929 to press tenants' claims against the zamindars, and the body became the model for the All India Kisan Sabha founded at Lucknow in April 1936, of which he was the first president with N. G. Ranga as…
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