How did the peasants of Awadh use different methods to achieve their goal ??explain with example...... For class 10
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1. Peasants of Awadh were headed by a Sanyasi named Baba Ram Chandra. This movement was against the Landlord and the Talukdars of the region.
2. Due to the increasing demand for revenue, the peasants had to do begar and had to toil on the land of landlord without any payment.
3. Thus, the peasants organized themselves into a group and demand a reduction in the revenue, the emancipation of begar system and social boycott of tyrannical landowners.
4. To make this movement successful the nai-dhobi bandhs were organized by panchayats to deny landowner of the services of hairdressers and washermen.
5. In the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, Baba Ram Chandra and few others the Oudh Kisan Sabha was established. Some of the instances, of this movement, involve the attacks of the peasants in which they attacked the houses of the Merchants and Talukdars. In this attack, the peasants looted the markets and took control over the grain hoards.
The awadh peasants were led by a sannyasi by Baba ram Chandra. The campaign was against the landlords and the Talukdars.
2. Exorbitantly high rents and other cessation were requested by landlords and talukdars. Peasants had to begar and work without paying at the landlords farms.
3. The farmers as tenants did not have tenure security. The peasant movement demanded a decrease in the abolition of begar income and a social boycott of oppressive landlords.
4. In many areas, panchayat organized nai dhobi bandhs to deprive landlords of barbarian and washerman operation.
5. Oudh kisan sabha was set up, with jawaharlal nehru baba ram chandra and a few others in charge.
In the villages over 300 branches were established within a month. The peasants evolved into forms. In 1921 they attacked talukdar and merchant houses. They raided bazaars. Grain hoards were overtaken.