How were the ryot sabha formed in different parts of assam against the british?
Answers
Answer:
the organisation, the movement and the activities of the
Ryot Sabhas had expanded in the period after the Non Co-operation Movement and
got consolidated in the post Civil Disobedience Movement in the Brahmaputra Valley
of Assam. We have also analysed in the previous chapter about the nature and functions
of the Ryot Sabha which contributed to establishing a larger democratic front of the
peasantry as a whole on one hand and included oti1er sections of the people as well on
the other h&nd. One of the main-springs of the Ryot Sabha s strength was that it was
able to establish a sense of awareness, courage and confidence in the minds of the
peasantry.
However, as Mridula Mukherjee has rightly pointed out "the political map of
the 20th century colonial India by the peasant and national movements was linked to the
fact that in most part of the country it was the anti-imperialist movement that created
the initial political space in which peasant movement emerged" .
1 Thus, in Assam too,
it was from 1918 onwards, that the peasantry actively began to participate in the national
2
movement and the real historical relationship between the two evolved. Hence, if the
emergence of peasantry can be said to have made a qualitative leap forward in the Non
Co-operation period, then in the post Non Co-operation period, it reached its most
Answer:
the organisation, the movement and the activities of the
Ryot Sabhas had expanded in the period after the Non Co-operation Movement and
got consolidated in the post Civil Disobedience Movement in the Brahmaputra Valley
of Assam. We have also analysed in the previous chapter about the nature and functions
of the Ryot Sabha which contributed to establishing a larger democratic front of the
peasantry as a whole on one hand and included oti1er sections of the people as well on
the other h&nd. One of the main-springs of the Ryot Sabha s strength was that it was
able to establish a sense of awareness, courage and confidence in the minds of the
peasantry.
However, as Mridula Mukherjee has rightly pointed out "the political map of
the 20th century colonial India by the peasant and national movements was linked to the
fact that in most part of the country it was the anti-imperialist movement that created
the initial political space in which peasant movement emerged" .
1 Thus, in Assam too,
it was from 1918 onwards, that the peasantry actively began to participate in the national
2
movement and the real historical relationship between the two evolved. Hence, if the
emergence of peasantry can be said to have made a qualitative leap forward in the Non
Co-operation period, then in the post Non Co-operation period, it reached its most