Modern History PYQ 93 of 636 · Other Civil Uprisings

Who founded Ramosi Krishak Jatha in Maharashtra?

  1. AJustice Ranade
  2. BGopal Krishna Gokhale
  3. CVasudev Balwant Phadke
  4. DJyotiba Phule

39th B.P.S.C. (Pre) 1994

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Correct answer: (c) Vasudev Balwant Phadke

Explanation

Among the early revolutionaries, the prominent leader Vasudev Balwant Phadke (1845–1883) organized the people of the Ramosi tribe in the Bombay Presidency and trained them, turning them into a disciplined fighting force. He was sentenced to transportation for life, and he died in 1883 after a hunger strike until death (In some sources, the cause of their death is started to be T.B.).

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