Question

can you able to explain the difference between the peasants under the British in India and today​

Answer 1

Answer:

Peasant movement is a social movement involved with the agricultural policy, which claims peasants rights.

• Peasant movements have a long history that can be traced to the numerous peasant uprisings that occurred in various regions of the world throughout human history. Early peasant movements were usually the result of stresses in the feudal and semi-feudal societies, and resulted in violent uprisings. More recent movements, fitting the definitions of social movements, are usually much less violent, and their demands are centered on better prices for agricultural produce, better wages and working conditions for the agricultural laborers, and increasing the agricultural production.

• The economic policies of the British adversely affected the Indian peasants under the British government, protecting the landlords and money lenders while they exploited the peasants. The peasants rose in revolt against this injustice on many occasions. The peasants in Bengal formed their union and revolted against the compulsion of cultivating indigo.

• Anthony Pereira, a political scientist, has defined a peasant movement as a "social movement made up of peasants (small landholders or farm workers on large farms), usually inspired by the goal of improving the situation of peasants in a nation or territory".

Answer 2

The conditions of peasants deteriorated under the British rule because the British were only concerned with the revenues of the state. They did nothing to improve the condition of agricultural land. The government levied high taxes on land. The revenues were generally not reduced even during droughts, floods etc.
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