who was baba ramchandra explain the answer in points
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Explanation:
Baba Ram Chandra was an Indian trade unionist who organised the farmers of Oudh, India into forming a united front to fight against the abuses of landlords in 1920s and 1930s.
Born: 1864
Answer:
• In Awadh peasants were led by Baba Ramchandra - a sanyasi who had earlier been to Fiji as an indentured labourer for Non-Cooperation Movement.
• The movement here was against talukdars and landlords who demanded from peasants exorbitantly high rents and a variety of other cases.
• Peasants had to do begar and work at landlord's farms without payment.
• As tenants, they had no security of tenure, being regularly evicted to that they could acquire no rights over the leased land.
• The peasants movement demanded reduction of revenue, abolition of begar, and social boycott of oppressive landlords.
• By October of 1920s, the Oudh Kisan Sabha was set up headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, Baba Ramchandra and few others.
• Within months, over 300 branches had been set up in the villages around the region.