Question

what ruined the peasants​

Answer 1

Peasant movement in India arose during the British colonial period, when economic policies characterized in the ruin of traditional handicrafts leading to change of ownership, overcrowding of land, massive debt and impoverishment of peasantry. The peasants were ruined.

Answer 2

Peasants and zamindars faced various kinds of problems in those days. Sometimes their crops would be destroyed by floods or famines. ... Thus, the land of hundreds of peasants and zamindars was auctioned off by the British rulers. Many peasants had borrowed money from moneylenders in order to pay their taxes.