MCQ on Peasant Movement and Kisan Sabha

Question 1. ‘Nai-Dhobi Band’ was form of Social boycott in 1919 which_______.

(A) was a movement against contractors by lower castes

(B) was a step against contractors of lower castes by landlords

(C) was a movement started by saints for the emancipation of the people lower classes

(D) was started by the farmers of Pratapgarh district

Question 2. Where had Baba Ramchandra organized the farmers?

(A) Andhra

(B) Bengal

(C) Bihar

(D) Awadh

Question 3. The first peasant movement of India was________.

(A) Bijolia

(B) Begu

(C) Bardoli

(D) Champaran

Question 4. Who among the following was not associated with the formation of U.P. Kisan Sabha in February, 1918?

(A) Madan Mohan Malviya

(B) Jawaharlal Nehru

(C) Gauri Shankar Misra

(D) Indra Narain Dwivedi

Question 5. Who among the following was linked closely with Kisan Sabha Movement in the 1930s?

(A) Sardar Patel

(B) Baba Ramananda

(C) Swami Sahajananda

(D) Swami Vidyananda

Question 6. What was the aim of Eka Movement in Awadh?

(A) Transformation of rent into cash

(B) End of Satyagraha

(C) To protect the rights of landlords

(D) To stop to give rent to the Government

Question 7. Who presided over the first session of All India Kisan Sabha?

(A) P.C. Joshi

(B) N.N. Ranga

(C) Indulal Yagnik

(D) Swami Sahajananda

Question 8. Akhil Bhartiya Kisan Congress was founded in______.

(A) 1945 A.D.

(B) 1942 A.D.

(C) 1939 A.D.

(D)  1936 A.D.

Question 9. Who was elected the first President of All India Kisan Sabha at Lucknow in 1936?

(A) Acharya Narendra Dev

(B) Swami Sahajananda Saraswati

(C) E.M.S. Namboodripad

(D) N.G. Ranga

Question 10. Where was the first All India Kisan Maha Sabha formed?

(A) Patna

(B) Lucknow

(C) Kolkata

(D) Allahabad

Question 11. The founder President of All India Kisan Sabha was______.

(A) Jai Prakash Narayan

(B) Bamkim Mukherjee

(C) Swami Sahajananda Saraswati

(D) Acharya Narendra Dev

Question 12. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

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Question 13. In the 1930s, peasant movements were started in different parts of the country at the instance of various leaders. Match them with their respective areas of influence.

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Question 14. The ‘Bhoodan Movement’ made its beginning in the State of________.

(A) Himachal Pradesh

(B) Andhra Pradesh

(C) Madhya Pradesh

(D) Uttar Pradesh

Question 15. Which one of the following places was associated with Acharya Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan Movement at the beginning of the movement? 

(A) Venkatagiri

(B) Pochampalli

(C) Raipur

(D) Udaygiri

Question 16. Who started Bhoodan movement?

(A) Sri Guruji

(B) Vinoba Bhave

(C) J.B. Kriplani

(D) Jai Prakash Narayan

Question 17. Mahatma Gandhi gave the title of ‘Sardar’ to Vallabhbhai Patel for his great organizational skills in________.

(A)  The Individual Satyagraha

(B)  The Salt Satyagraha

(C) The Bardoli Satyagraha

(D) The Kheda Satyagraha

Question 18. Who gave Vallabhbhai Patel the title of ‘Sardar’?

(A) Kasturba

(B) Maulana Azad

(C) Pandit Nehru

(D) Mahatma Gandhi

Question 19. In which of the following movement Sardar Patel played an important role?

(A) Bardoli Satyagraha

(B) Strike of textile mill workers in Ahmedabad

(C) Dandi March

(D) Bijolia Movement

Question 20. The leader of the Bardoli Satyagraha (1928) was_______.

(A) Mahadev Desai

(B) Vithalbhai Patel

(C) Mahatma Gandhi

(D) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Question 21. The demand for the Tebhaga Peasant Movement in Bengal was for ________.

(A) Writing off all peasant debts

(B) The uprooting of Zamindari System and the end of serfdom

(C) The grant of ownership of land to peasants as they were the actual cultivators of the land

(D) The reduction of the share of the landlords from one-half of the crop to one-third

Question 22. Who was associated with Kisan Movement in Bihar?

(A) Bhagat Singh

(B) Motilal Nehru

(C) C.R. Das

(D) Rajendra Prasad

Question 23. Swami Sahajananda Saraswati formed the All India United Kisan Sabha with the demand for the ‘nationalization of land and waterways’ ________.

(A) In the 1920s

(B) In the 1930s

(C) At a very young age

(D) Just before his death

Question 24. Swami Sahajananda was related with_______.

(A) Labour Movement in Bihar

(B) Farmers Movement in Bihar

(C) Caste Movement in Bihar

(D) Tribal Movement in Bihar