Question
Download Solution PDFIn which Province of India was the Bardoli Satyagraha launched?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Gujrat.
Key Points
- The Bardoli Satyagraha was launched in Gujrat province of British India.
- The leader of Bardoli Peasant satyagraha was Vallabhbhai Patel.
- What triggered the Bardoli Satyagraha was the erstwhile Bombay Presidency government’s decision a couple of months earlier to impose an exorbitant 30 percent increase in land revenue assessment.
- This decision was taken based on the recommendation of a Provincial Civil Service officer who argued that farmers were enjoying greater prosperity in the region following the establishment of the railway line in the Tapti River Valley.
Additional Information
- The Bardoli Taluk in modern-day Gujarat was hit by floods and famines in 1925, which adversely affected crop yield. This affected the farmers financially.
- Despite petitions and appeals from civic groups and farmers to review this unjust hike in tax rates in lieu of the grave situation, the government decided to go ahead with tax collection.
- Farmers in Bardoli invited Vallabhai Patel to launch the protest movement wherein all of them resolved not to pay taxes.
- Under the leadership of Patel, the Bardoli peasants decided to refuse payments of the revised assessment until the Government appointed an independent tribunal or accepted the current amount as full payment.
- Those who opposed the movement had to face a social boycott.
- The outcome of the satyagraha was British Government set up the Maxwell-Broomfield commission, reduced land Revenue to 6.03%, and returned confiscated land back to farmers.
- In this struggle, Vallabhbhai Patel got the title of “Sardar” by local farmers of Bardoli.
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