How were workers and peasants mobilised during the last year freedom struggle
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Explanation:
it was under the leadership of Gandhi that Indian National Movement became a mass movement. He molded the millions, and he largely succeeded in doing so. His contribution has two main relevances:
a) He changed the peasants and workers from a depressed, fearful and desperate, mass, who were bullied and crushed by every dominant interest into a people with self-respect and self-reliance.
b) He transformed the incapable people to people who were capable of united action and sacrifice for a larger cause.
The peasants were organized by the Communist Party of India and its affiliated trade union –All India Trade Union Congress in the last years of the freedom struggle.
The important revolts of the workers and peasants were:
1) Royal Indian Navy revolt (also called the Royal Indian Navy mutiny or Bombay mutiny) on 18 February 1946. It was a hunger strike to protest against bad food and behavior of the British officers.
2) Tebhaga movement in 1946. It was in Bengal and considered important because of the massive participation of women workers. It was led by Kisan Sabha.
3) The Telangana Rebellion or "Telangana Bonded Labour Movement" or "Telangana Peasants Armed Struggle" was a peasant rebellion against the feudal lords of the Telangana region in Hyderabad and the princely state of Hyderabad, between 1946 and 1951.
4) Punnapra-Vayalar revolt in 1946 was initiated by the farmers in Travancore region in Kerala.
Thus there was a massive uprising from the part of the working class all over India in the last phase of the freedom struggle.
Explanation:
i) Workers were angry about low wages. In 1946, the guards of the Royal Indian Navy in Bombay harbor came out on hunger strike to protest against bad food and behavior of the British officers.
ii) The worker and peasants were mobilised during the last years of freedom struggle by the Communist Party of India and its affiliated trade union All India Trade Union Congress.
iii) The year 1946 was a year of strikes and work stoppages in factories and mills in many parts of the country. CPI and the socialist parties were active in these movements.
iv) An agitation was started in Bengal by small and poor peasants who took land of the bigger land owners to cultivate. This was called the Tebhaga Movement and was led by the provincial Kisan Sabha.
v) In Hyderabad, the Communist Party led a massive movement of farmers of the Telangana region. The peasants took up arms to resist the rulers and their armies. Almost 3000 villages were part of the movement.
vi) Another armed revolt of presents took place in Travancore state in Punnapra-Vayalar region. The Telangana armed struggle, Tebhaga Movement and Punnapra-Vayalar had a great revolutionary impact in the country.
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