The Eki movement among the Bhils and Garasias of Mewar and Sirohi, begun in 1921, was led by
- A.Govind Guru
- B.Motilal Tejawat
- C.Manikya Lal Verma
- D.Vijay Singh Pathik
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Motilal Tejawat. Tejawat, from Koliyari in Udaipur, began the Eki movement in 1921, asking the Bhils and Garasias to stop paying illegal cesses and to refuse begar, and set out their demands in a charter known as the Mewar ki Pukar. His followers called him Eklingji ka Diwan and Bawji, and Bhils of his movement were fired on at Neemda in Sirohi on 7 March 1922.
Option A is wrong because Govind Guru belongs to an earlier phase, the Samp Sabha of 1883 and the Mangarh firing of 1913. Option C is wrong because Manikya Lal Verma led the last phase of the Bijolia peasant movement. Option D is wrong because Vijay Singh Pathik worked at Bijolia and in the Rajasthan Seva Sangh, both peasant rather than tribal fronts. The question is really asking which of the four names belongs to the organisation founded outside Rajasthan, at Wardha in the Central Provinces.
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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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