• ISBN13: 9788171561759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: December 11, 1990
• Pages: 252
• Original Price: INR 230.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: N/A

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'.