The demand for the Tebhaga Peasant Movement in Bengal was for
[amp_mcq option1=”the reduction of the share of the landlords from one-half of the crop to one-third” option2=”the grant of ownership of land to peasants as they were the actual cultivators of the land” option3=”the uprooting of Zamindari system and the end of serfdom” option4=”writing off all peasant debts” correct=”option1″]
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UPSC IAS – 2013
– The movement was led by the Kisan Sabha (peasant front of the Communist Party of India).
– The central demand of the Tebhaga movement was the reduction of the share of the harvest taken by the landlords from the traditional one-half (fifty-fifty share) to one-third (tebhaga, meaning “three parts,” where the sharecropper would keep two-thirds).
– The sharecroppers (known as ‘bargadars’ or ‘adhiars’) were tenants who cultivated the land but did not own it, giving a share of the produce to the landlord.