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"Agricultural Problems of the Post-Colonial East: the Tebhaga Movement and the National Government of India"

Chereshneva, Larisa Alexandrovna

Abstract

The agrarian civilizations of the East were distinguished by a specific way of agriculture, a system of land-tax relations and state policy in solving peasant problems. The history of India, which was a British possession in South Asia for two hundred years, is filled with eventful events, among which some of the most striking, remaining in the memory of the Indian peoples, difficult for historical analysis, were the popular and peasant movements of different eras. The XIX-th and XX-th centuries, closest to us in time, provided examples of the Great Uprising of 1857-1859 (with the active participation of the peasantry, especially in the Principality of Oudh, where it became the main driving force), the indigo uprising on the indigo-bearing plantations of Bengal, the participation of peasants in the satyagrahas of Mahatma Gandhi in the 1920-1930s, the August Revolution of 1942, Telangana uprising that broke out in 1946 in Hyderabad. At the same time, the Tebhaga movement began in the east of India, which dealt a blow not only to the outgoing colonial regime, but also continued after India achieved independence.

Keywords: agrarian system of India, land tax systems, peasant castes, Tebhaga, policy of the national government.

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Citation

Chereshneva, Larisa Alexandrovna "Agricultural Problems of the Post-Colonial East: the Tebhaga Movement and the National Government of India" Agrarian History, Number 16, 2023 P. 41 - 48. doi: 10.52270/27132447_2023_16_41