• ISBN13: 9788171561759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
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• Publication Date: December 11, 1990
• Pages: 252
• Original Price: INR 230.0
• Language: English
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In 1930, after the commencement of the Salt Satyagraha, a peasant agitation in an organised manner was started in U.P. by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, which provided enormous strength to the civil disobedience movement. The agitation contributed in two ways to the civil disobedience movement. In the first place it contributed in creating an awakening among the farmers of India and infused new life into them. In the second place the struggle, launched by Nehru, strengthened the C.D.M. It was this awakening which made the farmers fearless in their relations with Zamindars, Taluqdars, Police and Officials and ultimately it brought about a gradual decline in the injustices and cruelties committed against the farmers by the landlords and others. It was this agitation which laid the foundation for the abolition of the Zamindari system. The present volume will help in a modest way in augmenting the treasure house of knowledge for the Political, Social, Economic and Historical forces of the times because all important literature relating to the work, activities and thinking of Pt. Nehru during the peasant agitation has been incorporated in this book.

Dr. Ravindra Kumar, former Research Representative in the Research Centre of Sardar Vallabh-bhai Patel National Memorial and a Senior Research Officer, Sardar Patel National Society, is an eminent scholar who has 11 authoritative publications to his credit including 'Social and Political Ideas of Sardar Valiabhbhai Patel', Abul Kalam Azad Birth Centenary Celebration Series', Sardar Valiabhbhai Patel and Com. Mao Tse-Tung : A Comparative Study', 'Some Reflections on the Problem of Communism in India', 'Life and Work of Kanjibhai Desai', 'Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: A Recollection', 'Bardoli Kisan Agitation' and 'Mahatama Gandhi : Indian Culture and Education'.

• 1. "Stop the payments of rent, revenue and all other taxes" speech of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru delivered at Tangan Village of District Rae Bareli on the 5th of February 1930.
• 2. "Formation of the associations of peasants and cultivators" letter of the Governor of United Provinces dated 25-3-80, to the Home Member of the Government of India in connection with the agitation in rural areas of the Provinces.
• 3. "Land Revenue"
• Resolution of the All India Congress Working Committee on the peasants' agitation, passed at Allahabad on the 12th-15th May 1930.
• 4. Note from the confidential Report of the Chief Secretary to the Government of U.P., to the Government of India for the first half of September 1930, on the rural agitation and situation in the provinces.
• 5. "Injustices of Landlords"
• Fortnightly confidential report of Mr. Jagish Prasad
• Chief Secretary to the Government of the United
• Provinces to the Secretary, Government of India,
• Home Department Political, for the second half of November, 1930 on the problem of the tenants of the provinces.
• 6. "Agricultural depression continues to be the main source of anxiety" a confidential fortnightly report of the Chief Secretary to the United Provinces for the first half of December, 1930.
• 7. "Satisfaction of tenancy with the reduction, sanctioned by the government" : a report of the Government of the United Provinces.
• 8. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's message to the Peasants of Rae Bareli.
• 9. "Agitation has stopped the very purpose of conferring about Purna Swaraj" : a statement issued by Mr. Sitla Sahai, a representative of Provincial Congress Committee of the Indian National Congress for the Peasants of the United Provinces after 'Gandhi-Irwin Pact' under title
• Settlement between the Congress and Government.
• 10. "Tenancy should face aggressive attitude of Zamindars" Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's letter to the Chief Secretary, Government of U.P.
• Mr. Jagdish Prasad
• in connection with the situation of rent, revenue and tenancy in the areas of U.P. on the request of the Chief Secretary.
• 11. A Statement of the Government of U.P. on the position of rent and revenue in the areas of the Provinces and its charges against the Congress to take advantage out of this situation.
• 12. Report of the Collector of Allahabad to the Commissioner of Allahabad Division on the present political situation in the rural areas of the district and the non-payment of rent campaign during the month of March, 1931.
• 13. A letter from the Secretary, U.P. Provincial Congress Committee, dated 22-3-1981, to Mr. Daya Shankar Misra, Secretary, District Congress Committee, Fatehpur in connection with the terms and conditions of the payment of rent.
• 14. Report, submitted to Mr. H.W. Emerson, Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department Political by the Chief Secretary to the Government of U.P. on behalf of the Commissioner of Allahabad division on the situation of No-rent Campaign in Allahabad district during the month of March, 1931.
• 15. Report of the Collector of Mathura district to the Commissioner of Agra division on the general attitude of the peasants and the Congress workers.
• 16. "Rural Agitation"
• C.I.D. report on rural agitation (Non-payment of rent campaign) in the United Provinces for the week ending March 28, 1931.
• 17. "Question does not arise of Using the Police to help Zamjndars in collecting their rent" : a clarification from the Collector and the District Magistrate of Allahabad.
• 18. "Congress attempts to consolidate their position in rural areas" Statements of the Government of U.P. on the Non-Payment of rent and the situation in the rural areas of the provinces in the month of March, 1931.
• 19. Letter of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, dated 9-4-1931 to the Commissioner of Allahabad division as a complaint against the Zamindars and Police regarding their ill-treatments of the Kisans.
• 20. Report of Mr. Jagdish Prasad, the Chief Secretary to the Government of U.P., to the Government of India, Home Department Political on the conflicts
• between the tenants and the Zamindars in Cawnpore district during the first fortnight of April, 1931.
• 21. "Rent and Revenue would be reduced to a great extent in Swaraj" : An appeal of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru to the tenants of Allahabad district, dated 13-4-1931.
• 22. "Congress flags at the houses of Zamindars" : A report of Deputy Commissioner, Bara Banki in connection with the terrorising of the landlords by
• the tenancy in the district.
• 23. "Agrarian situation after the pact" : A report of the Government of U.P.
• 24. "Efforts of Congress to gain a hold over the rural population". Fortnightly confidential report for the United Provinces for the second half of April 1931 on the Political situation in the province specially about the agrarian movement.
• 25. Decision of the people of Allahabad to organise a district Kisan Sabha.
• 26. "Land must be restored to the tenants" Mahatma Gandhi's manifesto to the U.P. Kisans.
• 27. "Agrarian situation is more critical" : A confidential fortnightly report for the United Provinces, for the first half of May, 1931.
• 27A. Letter of Shri Ram Pal Singh, a Taluqdar of Rae Bareli to Mahatma Gandhi, dated 15-5-1931, requesting him to stay for a day in the district to understand the real position of rent and revenue in Oudh.
• 28. "Remember the aims of Congress of Trath and Non-Violence" : An appeal of Mahatma Gandhi to the Kisans of U.P.
• 29. "Inhuman atrocities committed by the Zamindars" : A statement issued by the Secretary, U.P. Provincial Congress Committee in connection with the , inhuman atrocities of Zamindars on the peasants of Gorakhpur.
• 30. "Bolshevik programme on Agrarian question" : Chief Secretary of the United Provinces, Mr. Jagdish Prasad's note, sent to the Government of India on a political group for its Bolshevik programme on the agrarian question in U.P.
• 31. Confidential report of the Government of U.P. on the peasants agitation in the rural areas of the province and the collection of revenue, for the first half of June, 1931.
• 32. A Speech, delivered by Mohan Lal Saxena at the district political conference, Pratapgarh, held on June 12, 1931, in Hadi Hall compound in the context of the problem of the payment of rent.
• 33. "Accept the advice of Mahatrna Gandhi." Pandit Jawabar Lal Nehru's speech in a Kisan Sabha at Kokharaj, district Allahabad on 20.6.1931.
• 34. "Congress Raj"
• An article, published in the 'Hamdard' a weekly from Lucknow on the situation and agitation in the areas of the United Provinces under title 'Congress Raj'.
• 35. Reply note of the Government of U.P. to the Congress report on Bara Banki incident from April 5 to 21 1931 and the main substance of the report.
• 36. Extract of speeches, delivered by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru in the rural areas of Rae Bareli district on 25th and 26th of June 1931.
• 37. Report of the Deputy Commissioner of Rae Bareli to the Commissioner of Lucknow Division on the activities of Congress workers in rural areas of the district and on the collection of rent.
• 38. "Activities of Jawahar Lal Nehru" : A report of the Commissioner of Lucknow Division on the activities of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru and others in the rural areas after the 'Gandhi-Irwin Pact' and the Congress Panchayat in the rural areas.
• 39. A letter, dated June 30, 1931, from the Deputy Commissioner, Rae Bareli to the Commissioner, Lucknow Division in connection with the activities of Congress workers in the rural areas and on the rent and revenue situation in the district.
• 40. Confidential report of K. Jagdish Prasad, Chief Secretary, Government of U.P. in the context of the payment of land revenue and the situation in the rural areas of the province during the second half of June, 1931.
• 41. "Mr. Gandhi charges U.P. officials with instigating Zamindars": a report by The Times of India.
• 42. "U.P. Peasants and Swaraj": Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru's views.
• 43. A confidential letter of Mr. Jagdish Prasad dated 9.7.31 to Mr. H.W. Emerson, Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department Political, on the agrarian situation in some of the worst effected districts in the province.
• 44. "U.P. Kisans instigated into not paying rents" : A report from the special correspondent of 'Pioneer' regarding the Rae Bareli incident and the agrarian situation.
• 45. "The No-rent Campaign"
• An analysis of a special correspondent of the 'Pioneer'.
• 46. "The truth about Bara Banki": a report of Pioneer.'
• 47. A confidential letter from the Chief Secretary, Government of U.P. to the Secretary, Government of India, Home Department Political, dated 16.7.31 inresponce to the latter's reply dated June 27, 1931 requesting the Chief Secretary (U.P.) to send informations about the attitude of Congress towards the no-tax compaign after 'Gandhi-Irwin Pact.'
• . 48. A confidential fortnightly report of the Chief Secretary, Government of U.P. to the Secretary of the Government of India, Home Department Political in the context of the decision of the working committee of I.N.C. regarding agrarian situation in the Province and the Kisans agitation for the first half of July, 1931.
• 49. "Improvement in the collection of rent and revenue" : A telegram from the Secretary to the Governor of U.P. dated 20.7.1931, to the Home Member of the Governor-General Council, in the context of the improvement in collection of rent and revenue in the province.
• 50. Letter from the Governor of the United Provinces to Mr. James Crerar, Home Member to the Viceroy's Council, dated 31.7.31 in connection with the communication of Mahatma Gandhi to the Congress Working Committee on the issues of rent, revenue etc. in the province.
• 51. Intelligence report for the United Provinces on the agrarian situation in the Province, specially about the Governor's speech in the Legislative Council in connection with the tenancy.
• 52. "Improvement in agrarian situation": A confidential fortnightly report for the United Provinces for the first half of August, 1931.
• 53. Publication of statement on agrarian situation by the Congress.
• 54. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru's criticism of the policy of the Government of U.P. towards the peasantry and tenancy in the province.
• 55. A confidential fortnightly report for the first half of October, 1931, by the Chief Secretary to the Government of U.P. on the activities of Jawahar Lal Nehru and others in the rural areas of the province.
• 56. Telegram of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, dated 16.10.31 to Mahatma Gandhi, Kingslay Hall Bow, London, on the agrarian situation in the United Provinces.
• 57. Reply from Mahatma Gandhi, dated 18.10.31 to Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru.
• 58. "Congress are again developing their chief attention to the rural areas." A confidential fortnightly report of the Chief Secretary, Government of United Provinces on the peasant's agitation in the province and recommendations of the committee for rent and revenue, appointed by the Governor.
• 59. Government's orders on the recommendations of rent and revenue committee: a fortnightly report for the first half of November, 1931, on the No-rent problem in U.P.
• 60. A letter from the Government of U.P. dated 6.12.31 to H.W. Emerson, Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department Political, as a reply of the letter of Mr. Emerson, requesting him to wait for the publication of material on the case against Congress until a report of a special officer, appointed to collect the facts concerned, is received.
• 61. Propasals of the Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department Political, as intimation to the government of U.P. in connection with the 'No-rent campaign in the province.
• 62. Statement of case regarding No-rent campaign, issued by the local government on 14th December, 1931.
• 63. A confidential fortnightly report of the U.P. Government for the first half of December 1931, on the special tour of Pt. Nehru and others to the rural areas of some parts of the province.
• 64. "The Position in U.P."
• Remark of C. Rajagopalacharier on agrarian distress in U.P. and his analysis of the report of the committee of U.P.P.C.C. on the agrarion situation.
• 65. "Big meetings in the rural areas"
• A confidential fortnightly report on the internal situation for the second half of December 1931, in the United Provinces.
• 66. Note on the 'Congress Blue Book' entitled
• 'Agrarian Distress in the United Provinces (Pant Report), by an officer
• Mr. A. A. Waugh
• of the Government of U.P. and the main substance of the 'Pant Report'.
• 67. A Note issued by the provincial committee of I.N.C. under title "The U.P. Provincial Congress
• Committee and the economic distress in the rural areas in the Province".
• 68. Appendix-1
• Netaji Subhash Bose's remark on the No-tax campaign in U.P.
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