All India Kisan Sabha
New Delhi, India-110002 | |
Location |
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General Secretary | Atul Kumar Anjan |
President | R. Venkaiah |
Affiliations | Communist Party of India |
All India Kisan Sabha (abbr. AIKS; lit. All India Farmers Union, also known as the Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha), is the peasant or farmers' wing of the Communist Party of India, an important peasant movement formed by Sahajanand Saraswati in 1936.[1][2]
History
The Kisan Sabha movement started in
Gradually the peasant movement intensified and spread across the rest of
In the subsequent years, the movement was increasingly dominated by Socialists and Communists as it moved away from the Congress. By the 1938
Conferences and office bearers
National Conference | Year | Place | President | General Secretary |
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1 (founder conference) |
11 April 1936 | Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh | Sahajanand Saraswati | N. G. Ranga |
2 | 25–26 December 1936 | Faijpur | N. G. Ranga | Sahajanand Saraswati |
3 | 11–14 May 1938 | Comilla (now in Bangladesh) |
Sahajanand Saraswati | N. G. Ranga |
4 | 9–10 April 1939 | Gaya, Bihar | Narendra Deo |
Sahajanand Saraswati |
5 | 26–27 March 1940 | Palasa, Andhra Pradesh | Rahul Sankrityayan | Indulal Yagnik |
6 | 29–31 May 1942 | Patna | Indulal Yagnik | Sahajanand Saraswati |
7 | 1–4 April 1943 | Bhakhna, Punjab | Bankim Mukherjee | |
8 | 14–15 March 1944 | Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh | Sahajanand Saraswati | Bankim Mukherjee |
9 | 5–9 April 1945 | Netrakona (now in Bangladesh) |
Muzaffar Ahmad | |
10 | 22–26 May 1947 | Secunderabad, Aligarh | Karyanand Sharma | M.A. Rasul |
11 | 22–23 April 1953 | Kannur, Kerala | Indulal Yagnik | N. Prasad Rao |
12 | 13–19 September 1954 | Moga, Punjab | ||
13 | 17–22 May 1955 | Talasari, Dahanu, Maharashtra | Nana Patil | |
14 | 28–30 September 1956 | Amritsar | A. K. Gopalan | |
15 | 28 October – 3 November 1957 | Bangaon, West Bengal | ||
16 | 29 April – 3 May 1959 | Mayuram, Tanjaur, Tamil Nadu | Bhabani Sen | |
17 | 17–19 May 1960 | Gazipur, Uttar Pradesh | ||
18 | 30 March – 2 April 1961 | Thrissur, Kerala | Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri | |
19 | 10–12 January 1968 | Amravati | Teja Singh Sutantar | Z.A. Ahmed
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20 | 1–5 April 1970 | Barasat, West Bengal | ||
21 | 19–23 September 1973 | Bhatinda | Z.A. Ahmed
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Indradeep Sinha |
22 | 7–10 June 1979 | Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh | ||
23 | 28–31 December 1986 | Barabanki Uttar Pradesh | Indradeep Sinha | Y. V. Krishna Rao |
24 | 16–19 June 1993 | Madhubani, Bihar | Y. V. Krishna Rao | Bhogendra Jha |
25 | Bihar | Bhogendra Jha | Y. V. Krishna Rao | |
26 | 1997 | Thrissur | Atul Kumar Anjan | |
27 | 2001 | Kauntai, West Bengal | C. K. Chandrappan | |
28 | 9–12 December 2010 | Aurangabad, Maharashtra | Prabodh Panda | |
29 | 27–29 March 2015 | Hyderabad, Telangana | ||
16 November 2021 | In CC meeting | R. Venkaiah |
Activities
Protest against three Agri-bills
AIKS led nationwide protests against Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
- 2 October 2018: AIKS organized march of farmers at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border.[10]
- 26 January 2021: AIKS organized tractor rally in national capital.[11][12]
- 26 February 2022: AIKS led Thousands of farmers started marching to Dhule District (Maharashtra) Collector's Office demanding forest land certificate.[13][14]
References
- ISBN 978-81-250-2596-2.
- ^ "75 Years of AIKS: A Saga of Glory". newageweekly.in.
- ISBN 978-81-250-2596-2.
- ^ Peasant Struggles in India, by Akshayakumar Ramanlal Desai. Published by Oxford University Press, 1979. Page 349.
- ISBN 978-81-250-2596-2.
- ^ ISBN 81-7023-205-8. Page 262.
- ISBN 0-7007-0626-7. Page 233.
- ISBN 0-521-01699-1. Page 192.
- ISBN 0-7619-9686-9. Page 347.
- ^ "Kisan Krant March: AIKS terms police action as 'barbaric'; says Centre's acceptance of demands 'hoax'".
- First Post. 26 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- Business Standard, India. Agencies. 24 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "वनपट्ट्यांसाठी रणरणत्या उन्हात शिरपूर ते धुळे लाँग मार्चला सुरवात".
- ^ "राज्यपाल कोशियारी यांनी आदिवासींच्या वनहक्क कायद्याची मोडतोड केली?".
Further reading
- Swami Sahajanand and the Peasants of Jharkhand: A View from 1941 translated and edited by Walter Hauser along with the unedited Hindi original (Manohar Publishers, paperback, 2005).
- Sahajanand on Agricultural Labour and the Rural Poor translated and edited by Walter Hauser Manohar Publishers, paperback, 2005).
- Religion, Politics, and the Peasants: A Memoir of India's Freedom Movement translated and edited by Walter Hauser Manohar Publishers, hardbound, 2003).
- Swami And Friends: Sahajanand Saraswati And Those Who Refuse To Let The Past of Bihar's Peasant Movements Become History By Arvind Narayan Das, Paper for the Peasant Symposium, May 1997 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Bagchi, A.K., 1976, "Deindustrialisation in Gangetic Bihar, 1809- 1901" in Essays in Honour of Prof. S.C. Sarkar, New Delhi.
- Banaji, Jairus, 1976, "The Peasantry in the Feudal Mode of Production: Towards an Economic Model", Journal of Peasant Studies, April.
- Bandopadhyay, D., 1973, "Agrarian Relations in Two Bihar Districts", Mainstream, 2 June, New Delhi.
- Judith M. Brown, 1972, Gandhi's Rise to Power: Indian Politics, 1915–1922, London.
- Chaudhuri, B.B., 1971, "Agrarian Movements in Bengal and Bihar, 1919-1939" in B.R. Nanda, ed., Socialism in India, New Delhi.
- Chaudhuri, B.B., 1975, "The Process of Depeasantisation in Bengal and Bihar, 1885-1947", Indian Historical Review, 2(1), July, New Delhi.
- Chaudhuri, B.B., 1975a, "Land Market in Eastern India, 1793-1940", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 13 (1 & 2), New Delhi.
- Arvind Narayan Das, 1981, Agrarian Unrest and Socio-economic Change in Bihar, 1900-1980, Delhi : Manohar.
- Arvind Narayan Das (ed.),1982, Agrarian Movements in India : Studies on 20th Century Bihar, London : Frank Cass.
- Arvind Narayan Das, 1992, The Republic of Bihar, New Delhi : Penguin.
- Arvind Narayan Das, 1996, Changel : The Biography of a Village, New Delhi : Penguin.
- Datta, K.K., 1957, History of the Freedom Movement in Bihar, Patna.
- Diwakar, R.R., ed., 1957, Bihar Through the Ages, Patna.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1921, "The Zamindar and the Ryots", Young India, Vol. III (New Series) No. 153, 18 May.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1940, An Autobiography or The Story of My experiments in Truth, Ahmedabad.
- Mishra, G., 1968. "The Socio-economic Background of Gandhi's Champaran Movement", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 5(3), New Delhi.
- Mishra, G., 1978, Agrarian Problems of Permanent Settlement: A Case Study of Champaran, New Delhi.
- Mitra, Manoshi, 1983, Agrarian Social Structure in Bihar: Continuity and Change, 1786–1820, Delhi : Manohar.
- Pouchepadass, J., 1974, "Local Leaders and the Intelligentsia in the Champaran Satyagraha", Contributions to Indian Sociology, New Series, No.8, November, New Delhi.
- Prasad, P.H., 1979, "Semi-Feudalism: Basic Constraint in Indian Agriculture" in Arvind N. Das & V. Nilakant, eds., Agrarian Relations in India, New Delhi.
- Shanin, Teodor, 1978, Defining Peasants: Conceptualisations and Deconceptualisations: Old and New in a Marxist Debate, Manchester University.
- Solomon, S., 1937, Bihar and Orissa in 1934-35, Patna.
- Socialism in India, by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. Published by Vikas Publications, 1972.Page 205.
- A History of the All India Kisan Sabha, by Md. Abdullah Rasul. Published by National Book Agency, 1974.
- Peasants in History: Essays in Honour of Daniel Thorner, by Eric J. Hobsbawm, Daniel Thorner, Witold Kula, Sameeksha Trust.Published by Oxford University Press, 1981.
- Bihar Peasantry and the Kisan Sabha, 1936-1947, by Rakesh Gupta. Published by People's Pub. House, 1982.
- "The Constitution of All India Kisan Sabha" Encyclopaedia of Political Parties, by O. P. Ralhan, Published by Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2002. ISBN 81-7488-865-9. Page 1-10.