Volume : 6, Issue : 1, January - 2017

IMPACT OF NON -COOPERATION MOVEMENT IN GUNTUR DISTRICT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PALNAD PEASANT AGITATION

V. Saraswathi

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<i style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">The paper is intended to study the factor leading to the Peasant agitation in Palnad region, and the impact Non- cooperation movement was started by Gandhi. It also explains how the Colonial forces suppressed the agitation.</span></i><i style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The Peasant agitations during 1920-22 were an integral part of Non-cooperation Movement in Andhra. Despite their initial spontaneous character, they were later integrated into the &quot;logic of Gandhian Nationalism&quot;, as in the case of no-tax campaigns in Guntur and Chirala.-Perala during the these period. All forms of peasant protests against forest regulations are confined to illicit grazing of cattle and sheep in the reserves, collection of fuel and manure leaves without authorization, destroying of forest boundaries which led to frequent friction between peasants and the forest subordinates, social boycott of forest and revenue officials and sporadic assaults at subordinate officials of the forest department which resulted in many cane charges, police firing, imposition of punitive forces and Taxes and so on.&nbsp;</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>