The demand for the Tebhaga Peasant Movement in Bengal was for

The demand for the Tebhaga Peasant Movement in Bengal was for

the reduction of the share of the landlords from one-half of the crop to one-third
the grant of ownership of land to peasants as they were the actual cultivators of the land
the uprooting of Zamindari system and the end of serfdom
writing off all peasant debts
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UPSC IAS – 2013
The correct option is A, which correctly states the main demand of the Tebhaga Peasant Movement.
– The Tebhaga movement was a significant peasant agitation that took place in the Bengal province of British India (present-day West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh) during 1946-1947.
– 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.
The movement aimed to improve the economic condition of the sharecroppers. While demands for land ownership (B) and the abolition of the Zamindari system (C) were broader goals of the peasant movement in India, the specific and immediate demand of the Tebhaga movement was related to the share of the crop. Writing off peasant debts (D) was also a common peasant demand but not the defining feature of the Tebhaga movement.
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