PEASANT AGITATION IN TANJORE DISTRICT, 1958: Owing to 10 per cent price hike, the peasants of Anaithandavapuram in Mayawaram taluk revolted against mirasdars for higher wages during harvest. The mirasdars conceded to the demands and provided 1¼ marakkals of paddy per kalam35. However, some mirasdars of Tanjore district violated the terms of Tanjore legislation and […]

The course of events that led to the Telangana peasant struggle can be described as under: The Telangana peasant movement was engineered by Communist party of India (CPI). It is said to be a revolution committed by Communist. The Communist Party started working in Telengana in 1936. Professor N.G. Ranga had laid down the regional […]

The Santhals  were subdued to an extent that they decided to rise against the jamindars, moneylenders and traders. In the beginning, following Permanent Land Settlement, the Santhals in Bihar did not resist much. They even took to limits of retreat and moved towards the borders of the plains of the Ganga at the rents were […]

Some of the causes of Moplah peasant movement are given below The oeasants of moplah were muslims pesants.  Their landlords who were called Jenmis were mostly hindus.  the relations between  the jenmis and the moplas were historicaaly quite unfriendly.  In other words the realtions were both economically and religiously antagonistic.  Since 1835 the hindu land […]