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Swami Sahajanand was associated with - Correct Answer the peasant movement of Bihar

The correct answer is the peasant movement of Bihar.

Key Points

  • Swami Sahajanad Saraswati:
    • He was an ascetic, a nationalist, and a peasant leader of India.
    • Although born in North-Western Provinces (present-day Uttar Pradesh), his social and political activities focussed mostly on Bihar in the initial days, and gradually spread to the rest of India with the formation of the All India Kisan Sabha.
    • He had set up an ashram at Bihta, near Bihar carried out most of his work in the latter part of his life from there. He was an intellectual, prolific writer, social reformer, and revolutionary.
    • On hearing of Saraswati's arrest during the Quit India Movement, Subhash Chandra Bose and All India Forward Block decided to observe 28 April as All- India Swami Sahajanand Day in protest of his incarceration by the British Raj.

Additional Information

  • After the Champaran Satyagraha in 1917, Bihar became an important centre for peasant movements.
  • The main centre of movements was north Bihar.
  • Kishan Sabha movement started in Bihar under the leadership of Swami Sagajanand Saraswati in 1927, who had formed a Bihar Provisional Kishan Sabha to mobilize peasant grievances against the zamindari attacks on their occupancy rights.
  • Gradually the peasant movement intensified and spread across the rest of India.
  • All these radical developments on the peasant front culminated in the formation of All India Kishan Sabha at the Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress in April 1936, with Swami Sahajanand  Saraswati elected as its first President.
  • The movement aimed at overthrowing the feudal zamindari system instituted by the British.
  • It was led by Swami Sahajanand Saraswati ans his follower Pandit Yamuna Karjee, Rahul Sankrityayan and others.
  • Pandit Yamuna Karjee along with Rahul Sankrityan and other Hindi literary started publishing a Hindi weekly Hunkar from Bihar in 1940.
  • Hunkar later became the mouthpiece of the peasant movement and the agrarian movement in Bihar and was instrumental in spreading the movement.
  • The peasant movement later spread to other parts of the country and helped in digging out the British roots in the Indian Society by overthrowing the zamindari system.

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