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SAHJANAND SARASWATI AND PEASANT'S STRUGGLE IN BIHAR

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  • 1. S/o Bipin Kumar Das, Vill.+ P.O.- Ranti, P.S.- Rajnagar, Dist- Madhubani

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The peasantry has been caught in this obfuscating ideological cobweb of "left radical nationalism". The peasantry in Bihar and its premier organisation, the Kisan Sabha, also got entangled in this, first with the "left radical nationalists" of the Congress Socialist Party and then with the "red radical nationalists" of the Communist Party of India. Right from its formation, the Kisan Sabha  under  the  leadership   and its  mentor  Sahjanand  Saraswati did not have very smooth relations with the Socialists. The two groups were almost always out of step. When the Sabha was formed, the Socialists opposed its formation on the question of adoption of zamindari abolition as the policy of the Sabha.

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  • Ibid.
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  • Ibid.
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