The Begun peasant movement of 1921, whose settlement the Mewar government called the Bolshevik agreement, was led by
- A.Ram Narayan Choudhary
- B.Motilal Tejawat
- C.Thakur Deshraj
- D.Haribhau Upadhyaya
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Ram Narayan Choudhary. He organised the cultivators of the Begun thikana of Mewar, in present Chittorgarh district, from 1921; the terms he won were so unwelcome to the Mewar government that its officials described the settlement as a Bolshevik agreement, and the firing at Govindpura on 13 July 1923 killed the peasants Rupaji and Kripaji.
Option B is wrong because Motilal Tejawat led the Eki movement of the Bhils of Mewar and Sirohi, a tribal and not a Begun peasant agitation. Option C is wrong because Thakur Deshraj worked among the Jat peasants of Shekhawati in Sikar. Option D is wrong because Haribhau Upadhyaya was associated with the Bijolia agitation and the national movement in Ajmer, not with Begun. Begun itself lay close to Bijolia, and the two agitations are often confused because Pathik guided both in their early years.
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Practice Questions
View allThe revolt of 1857 began in Rajasthan on 28 May 1857 at which cantonment?
- A.Neemuch
- B.Nasirabad
- C.Erinpura
- D.Deoli
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The 15th Bengal Native Infantry stationed at Nasirabad in Ajmer district rose on 28 May 1857, burnt the cantonment and marched towards Delhi, which makes Nasirabad the first centre of the revolt anywhere in Rajputana.
Read the full explanation →Monck Mason, the Political Agent at Jodhpur, was killed in which battle of 1857?
- A.Battle of Bithoda
- B.Battle of Chelawas
- C.Battle of Sanganer
- D.Battle of Kothariya
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Thakur Kushal Singh of Auwa met a combined British and Jodhpur force at Chelawas on 18 September 1857 and defeated it, and Monck Mason, the Political Agent posted at Jodhpur, was killed in that fighting.
Read the full explanation →Who was the Agent to the Governor-General for Rajputana during the revolt of 1857, with his headquarters at Mount Abu?
- A.Major Burton
- B.Monck Mason
- C.George St Patrick Lawrence
- D.General Roberts
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The whole of Rajputana was supervised by a single Agent to the Governor-General, and in 1857 that post was held by Patrick Lawrence, who worked from Mount Abu and spent the year keeping the princely rulers on the British side.
Read the full explanation →In the revolt of 15 October 1857 the Political Agent Major Burton and his two sons were killed at which place?
- A.Kota
- B.Tonk
- C.Jaipur
- D.Udaipur
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On 15 October 1857 the Kota state troops, led by Jaidayal and Mehrab Khan, turned on the British residency, killed Major Burton and his two sons and held the city for about five months until General Roberts recovered it in March 1858.
Read the full explanation →The Bijolia peasant movement was fought in a thikana of Mewar that lies in which present-day district of Rajasthan?
- A.Chittorgarh
- B.Bhilwara
- C.Udaipur
- D.Ajmer
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Bijolia was a first-class thikana of Mewar and its village lies in Bhilwara district today. The movement of its mostly Dhakar cultivators against some eighty-four kinds of lag-bag ran from 1897 to 1941 and is counted the longest-running peasant movement in India.
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