A historical study of the eka movement: Peasants, nationalism and the colonial state, 1921-26
Author(s): Dr. Prabal Saran Agarwal
Abstract: Almost a century ago, there lived a man belonging to an ‘untouchable’ caste in the Awadh region of United Provinces of North India, who led a peasant movement in the early 1920s against the mighty Taluqdars or the big feudal landlords of the region and the British Raj. Even with a Rs.1,000 bounty and a dead or alive warrant against him, he avoided capture for many days, was finally put in jail, came out, tried some new strategies but was ultimately lost in the annals of history. New evidences now suggest that Madari Pasi, this Gandhi cap-wearing militant peasant leader with a bow and arrow, lived the last phase of his rebellious life, in jungles organizing the forest-dwellers of district Hardoi. However, in contrast to certain writings which present him as an ‘autonomous’ player in the peasant movement, evidences show that after leading the Eka peasant movement in late 1921 and early 1922, he got in touch with revolutionary nationalists like Bhagat Singh and became their comrade. Also, during the initial phase of the Eka movement too, he was deeply influenced by the Gandhian ideas of swaraj and swadeshi.
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Dr. Prabal Saran Agarwal. A historical study of the eka movement: Peasants, nationalism and the colonial state, 1921-26. Int J Hist 2024;6(2):231-234.
