LAQ : Discuss the Eka movement and Bardouli Satyagraha movement

Question

Discuss the Eka movement and Bardouli Satyagraha movement. 

Answer

Eka movement

From the Hindi word ‘Ekta’ (unity) the word ‘Eka’ has come. The Eka Movement started in the Hardoi, Bahraich, Sitapur and Barabanki districts of North West Ayodhya in UP in 1921-22. Though the movement was started by local Congress leaders, later radical leaders Madari Pasi and Sahrab took the reins of the movement into their own hands. Leaders of many backward communities had joined the Eka Movement. The principal objectives or causes of this movement were

1. the farmers would pay their taxes in cash or money
2. they were not forced to pay taxes on their cultivated crops,
3. they did not tolerate the “Bet Begari system” or forced labour.
4. oppression of the tax collectors of Zamindar-Feudal lords on peasants,

Bardouli Satyagraha

The Bardoli Satyagraha was a non-violent resistance movement led by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in 1928, against the British colonial government’s decision to increase the land revenue rates in the Bardoli taluka of present-day Gujarat, India. The movement lasted for about six months and was successful in achieving its goal of reducing the land revenue rates.