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Illustrate the contributions of the Tebhaga Movement to the peasant struggle in India.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 10 marks
  • Social Movements in Modern India

Tebhaga (1946–47) was the demand of Bengal's sharecroppers, the bargadars, that the landlord's customary half of the harvest be cut to one-third, leaving the cultivator two of three shares. Launched by the Bengal Provincial Kisan Sabha in September 1946, it converted a legal recommendation into a mass struggle and reshaped what Indian peasant politics could…

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  • Contribution 1: it shifted the struggle from rent to the crop-share
  • Contribution 2: organisation and a wider social base
  • Contribution 3: legislative and institutional legacy
  • Contribution 4: it became a test case for peasant theory
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  • Conclusion

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