Question

Oudh Kisan Sabha was established in ___
A) 1920
B) 1921
C) 1922
D) 1923

Answer 1

Hint: Jawaharlal Nehru, Baba Ramachandra, and others founded the Oudh Kisan Sabha, commonly known as the Awadh Kisan Sabha. It was founded to oppose landowners and talukdars who sought excessive taxes and rents.

Complete answer:
The Oudh Kisan Sabha was founded in 1920 by Baba Ram Chandra. He was a trade unionist who gathered Oudh's farmers and led the first anti-landlord demonstration.

Peasants in Awadh were headed by Baba Ramchandra, a sanyasi who had previously worked as an
indentured labourer in Fiji. The campaign was against talukdars and landlords who sought exorbitantly high rents and a variety of additional cesses from peasants in this area.

Peasants were forced to labour for free on the estates of their landowners. They had no security of tenure as tenants, as they were evicted on a frequent basis, preventing them from acquiring any rights to the rented land. The peasant movement wanted lower taxes, the eradication of beggars, and a social boycott of tyrannical landowners. Panchayats in several locations organised nai dhobi bandhs to deprive landowners of even barbers and washermen's services.

Jawaharlal Nehru began visiting villages in Awadh in June 1920, speaking with the locals and attempting to understand their problems. By October, Jawaharlal Nehru, Baba Ramchandra, and a few others had formed the Oudh Kisan Sabha. Over 300 branches had been established in the communities throughout the region within a month.

As a result, when the Non-Cooperation Movement began the following year, the Congress attempted to include the Awadh peasant fight into the larger battle. The peasant movement, on the other hand, took shape in ways that the Congress leadership did not approve of. Houses of talukdars and merchants were assaulted, bazaars were robbed, and food hoards were taken over as the movement grew in 1921.

Local leaders told peasants that Gandhiji had stated that no taxes would be paid and that land would be divided among the poor in numerous locations. The Mahatma's name was evoked to justify all actions and goals.

Therefore the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note: In the 1920s and 1930s, Baba Ram Chandra was an Indian trade unionist who organised the farmers of Awadh, India, into a single front to fight against landlord abuses. He was also a significant role in Fiji's history, and his 12 years as an indentured labourer in Fiji, as well as his efforts to abolish the indenture system, inspired him to take up the cause of the oppressed.