Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

The Awadh Kisan Sabha urged peasants not to cultivate land from which tenants had been evicted, to refuse unpaid labour and to settle disputes through panchayats. Eka participants pledged to pay recorded rent on time, resist eviction, refuse forced labour and obey panchayat decisions.

Which one of the following conclusions follows most appropriately?

  1. Both movements demanded the complete abolition of rent and rejected every obligation of the cultivator.
  2. Both used collective discipline and panchayats, but Eka expressly distinguished recorded rent from excessive or unauthorised demands.
  3. The Awadh movement defended thikadars, whereas Eka was organised to preserve their revenue-collecting powers.
  4. Eka rejected agrarian demands and functioned principally as a movement for constitutional representation.
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