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Oudh Kisan Sabha was set up in 1920 headed by Jawaharlal Nehru,
Baba Ramchandra and a few others.
Congress leadership was unhappy with the movement because the
name of the Mahatma was being invoked to sanction all action and
aspirations like;
i. the houses of talukdars and merchants were attacked,
ii. bazaars were looted, and grain hoards were taken over.
In many places local leaders told peasants that Gandhiji had declared
that no taxes were to be paid and land was to be redistributed among
the poor.
Tribal peasants in the Gudem Hills

 of Andhra Pradesh
 started a militant guerrilla movement, against the colonial
government
b) Tribal REASONS
peasants i. Closing large forest areas, preventing people from entering the
forests to graze their cattle, or to collect fuelwood and fruits.
ii. This affected not only their livelihoods but also, they felt that
their traditional rights were being denied.
iii. Forcing them to contribute beggar for road building.

ROLE OF LEADER-Alluri Sitaram Raju leader of the Gudem Hills
peasants’
c) READ a) talked of the greatness of Mahatma Gandhi, said he was
Source B inspired by the Non-Cooperation Movement,
b) persuaded people to wear khadi and give up drinking.
c) But at the same time, he asserted that India could be liberated
only by the use of force, not non-violence.

VIOLENT ACTION OF TRIBAL PEASANTS-

The Gudem rebels attacked police stations, attempted to kill British
officials and carried on guerrilla warfare for achieving swaraj.

RESULT-
Raju was captured and executed.
Rebellion wassuppressed

2.3-Swaraj in 3. Swaraj in Plantations
Plantations When the plantation workers of Assam heard of the Non-Cooperation
Movement, thousands of workers defied the authorities, left the
Pg-36&37 plantations and headed home.
Under the Inland Emigration Act of 1859, plantation workers were
not permitted to leave the tea gardens without permission, and in fact
they were rarely given such permission.

Because For plantation workers swaraj meant:
a) Gandhi Raj was coming and everyone would be given land in