Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, who organised the peasants of Bihar, was the first president of which organisation?
- A.Indian National Congress
- B.All India Kisan Sabha
- C.Congress Socialist Party
- D.Bihar Vidyapith
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, All India Kisan Sabha. Sahajanand Saraswati built the peasant movement in Bihar through the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha from 1929 and became the first president of the All India Kisan Sabha, formed in 1936, with N. G. Ranga as its general secretary. His slogan of land to the tiller shaped the agrarian programme of the period.
Option A is wrong because the first president of the Congress, in 1885, was W. C. Bonnerjee. Option C is wrong because the Congress Socialist Party, founded at Patna in 1934, had Acharya Narendra Deva as its president and Jayaprakash Narayan as its general secretary. Option D is wrong because the Bihar Vidyapith was an educational institution of 1921 associated with Rajendra Prasad rather than with Sahajanand.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Champaran Satyagraha took place in which of the following states of India?
- A.Odisha
- B.Gujarat
- C.Bihar
- D.West Bengal
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Champaran is a district of north Bihar, with Motihari as its headquarters, and the satyagraha of 1917 was fought there against the indigo planters' tinkathia system.
Read the full explanation →Who persuaded Mahatma Gandhi to visit Champaran?
- A.Rajendra Prasad
- B.Raj Kumar Shukla
- C.Brajkishore Prasad
- D.Mazharul Haque
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Shukla was a cultivator of Champaran who met Gandhi at the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916 and followed him from place to place until Gandhi agreed to come to the district.
Read the full explanation →In the tinkathia system of Champaran, the cultivator was required to grow indigo on
- A.three kathas out of every twenty kathas of his land
- B.three bighas out of every twenty bighas
- C.one third of his total holding
- D.three acres of every holding
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The word tinkathia comes from the obligation to plant indigo on three kathas out of every twenty kathas of land, twenty kathas making one bigha in the local measure.
Read the full explanation →The enhanced rent that Champaran planters charged for releasing tenants from indigo cultivation was called
- A.Tawan
- B.Sharahbeshi
- C.Abwab
- D.Begar
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When synthetic dye destroyed the market for natural indigo, the planters freed tenants from the obligation to grow it but raised their rent permanently; this enhancement was known as sharahbeshi.
Read the full explanation →The Champaran Agrarian Act, which abolished the tinkathia system, was passed in which year?
- A.1916
- B.1917
- C.1918
- D.1920
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The government appointed the Champaran Agrarian Enquiry Committee in 1917 with Gandhi as one of its members, and acting on its report Parliament of the province passed the Champaran Agrarian Act in 1918.
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