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Peasant Movement and Kisan Sabha: BPSC Prelims PYQs

14 previous-year questions on Peasant Movement and Kisan Sabha, asked 1994–2023. Each one opens to its answer and explanation.

1. 1. 64th BPSC Prelims 2018

   The immediate cause of the Deccan Riots of 1875 was:

   1. AThe shadow of a famine
   2. BHigh interest rates charged by Mahajans
   3. CHigh land revenue rates
   4. DProtest against imposition
   5. ENone of the above/More than one of the above
   Answer and explanation →

2. 2. BPSC CDPO Prelims 2018

   'Eka Movement' was launched in the rural areas of which region?

   1. ABihar
   2. BPunjab
   3. CBengal
   4. DAwadh
   5. ENone of the above/More than one of the above
   Answer and explanation →

3. 3. 39th BPSC Prelims 1994

   What was the aim of Eka Movement in Oudh?

   1. ATo stop to giving rent to the Government
   2. BTo protect the rights of landlords
   3. CEnd of satyagraha
   4. DTransformation of rent into cash.
   Answer and explanation →

4. 4. 44th BPSC Prelims 2000

   Who was associated with the Kisan Movement in Bihar?

   1. ARajendra Prasad
   2. BC.R. Das
   3. CMotilal Nehru
   4. DBhagat Singh
   Answer and explanation →

5. 5. 65th BPSC Prelims Re-exam 2020

   Farmer leader Motilal Tejawat is related to-

   1. ABijolia movement
   2. BMewar's Bhil tribal movement
   3. CThe peasant movement of Marwar
   4. DThe peasant movement of U.P.
   5. ENone of the above
   Answer and explanation →

6. 6. 47th BPSC Prelims 2005

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

   1. ASwami Sahajanand
   2. BIndulal Yagnik
   3. CN.G. Ranga
   4. DP.C. Joshi
   Answer and explanation →

7. 7. 60th–62nd BPSC Prelims 2016

   Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Congress was founded in:

   1. A1936 AD
   2. B1939 AD
   3. C1942 AD
   4. D1945 AD
   5. ENone of the above/More than one of the above.
   Answer and explanation →

8. 8. 60th–62nd BPSC Prelims 2016

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

   1. AN.G. Ranga
   2. BE.M.S. Namboodripad
   3. CSwami Sahajanand Saraswati
   4. DAcharya Narendra Dev
   5. ENone of the above/More than one of the above.
   Answer and explanation →

9. 9. 48th–52nd BPSC Prelims 2008

   Where was the first All India Kisan Maha Sabha formed?

   1. AAllahabad
   2. BKolkata
   3. CLucknow
   4. DPatna
   Answer and explanation →

10. 10. 60th–62nd BPSC Prelims 2016

    Which one of the following Congress leaders participated in the first All India Kisan Sabha?

    1. AJawaharlal Nehru
    2. BM.K. Gandhi
    3. CSubhas Chandra Bose
    4. DRajendra Prasad
    Answer and explanation →

11. 11. 56th–59th BPSC Prelims 2014

    Swami Sahajananda Saraswati formed the All India United Kisan Sabha with the demand for the ‘nationalisation of land and waterways’:

    1. AJust before his death
    2. BAt a very young age
    3. CIn the 1930s
    4. DIn the 1920s
    Answer and explanation →

12. 12. 65th BPSC Prelims 2019

    The Sarabandi Campaign of 1922 was led by

    1. AChittaranjan Das
    2. BSardar Vallabhbhai Patel
    3. CRajendra Prasad
    4. DLala Lajpat Rai
    5. ENone of the above/More than one of the above
    Answer and explanation →

13. 13. 67th BPSC Prelims Re-exam 2022

    Who successfully led the Bardoli Satyagraha?

    1. AVallabhbhai Patel
    2. BMotilal Nehru
    3. CJ. B. Kripalani
    4. DJawaharlal Nehru
    5. ENone of the above/More than one of the above
    Answer and explanation →

14. 14. 68th BPSC Prelims 2023

    "A Sannyasi who came to that district after a spell as an indentured labourer in Fiji, carrying a copy of Tulsidas Ramayana on his back from which he would recite verses to rural audience." The peasant leader referred to here is

    1. ABaba Ram Chandra
    2. BJhinguri Singh
    3. CYadunandan Sharma
    4. DMore than one of the above
    5. ENone of the above
    Answer and explanation →