How people in countryside participated in civil disobedience movement?
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- From the towns, the civil disobedience movement spread to the countryside
- It drew into its fold, struggles of peasants and tribals that were developing and many parts of India in the years after the war.
- In Awadh, peasants was led by Baba Ramchandra, a Sanyasi, who had earlier been to Fiji as an indentured labour. Here, the movement was against the talukdars and the who demanded from presents exorbitantly high rents and a variety of other cesses.
- By October, the Oudh Kisan Sabha was set up headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, Baba Ramchandra and few others. Within a month, over 300 branches was set up in the villages surrounding the region.
- In many places, the local leaders told the people, that Gandhiji had declared that no taxes were to be paid, and land was going to be redistributed among the poor...
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