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The All India Kisan Sabha was an important peasant movement formed in 1936 to mobilize peasant grievances against landowners and demand the abolition of landlordism and debt cancellation. It was initially led by Sahajanand Saraswati and involved both socialists and communists. By the 1940s, the Communist Party of India had taken control of the organization and it adopted the Communist party's line, distancing itself from the Indian National Congress. In 1964, when the Communist Party of India split, the All India Kisan Sabha also split into two factions affiliated with the new communist parties. Today there are two organizations that continue to operate under the name All India Kisan Sabha, one affiliated with CPI(M) and one

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All India Kisan Sabha

The All India Kisan Sabha was an important peasant movement formed in 1936 to mobilize peasant grievances against landowners and demand the abolition of landlordism and debt cancellation. It was initially led by Sahajanand Saraswati and involved both socialists and communists. By the 1940s, the Communist Party of India had taken control of the organization and it adopted the Communist party's line, distancing itself from the Indian National Congress. In 1964, when the Communist Party of India split, the All India Kisan Sabha also split into two factions affiliated with the new communist parties. Today there are two organizations that continue to operate under the name All India Kisan Sabha, one affiliated with CPI(M) and one

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All India Kisan Sabha

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For the earlier Kisan Sabha, see Kisan Sabha (1919-1922).
All India Kisan Sabha (All India Peasants Union, also known as the Akhil Bharatiya Kisan
Sabha), was the name of the peasants front of the undivided Communist Party of India(CPI), an
important peasant movement formed by Sahajanand Saraswati in 1936, and which later split into
two organizations known by the same name.
Contents
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1 History

2 Present organisations

3 Further reading

4 References

History[edit]
The Kisan Sabha movement started in Bihar under the leadership of Sahajanand Saraswati who
had formed in 1929 the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BPKS) in order to mobilise peasant
grievances against the zamindari attacks on their occupancy rights, and thus sparking
the Farmers' movement in India [1][2]
Gradually the peasant movement intensified and spread across the rest of India. The formation
of Congress Socialist Party (CSP) in 1934 helped the Communists to work together with
the Indian National Congress, however temporarily,[3] then in April 1935, noted peasant leaders N.
G. Ranga and E. M. S. Namboodiripad, then secretary and joint secretary respectively of South
Indian Federation of Peasants and Agricultural Labour, suggested the formation of an all-India
farmers body,[4] and soon all these radical developments culminated in the formation of the All
India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) at the Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress on April 11,
1936 with Saraswati elected as its first President, [5] and it involved people such as Ranga,
Namboodiripad, Karyanand Sharma, Yamuna Karjee, Yadunandan (Jadunandan) Sharma, Rahul
Sankrityayan, P. Sundarayya, Ram Manohar Lohia, Jayaprakash Narayan, Acharya Narendra
Dev and Bankim Mukerji. The Kisan Manifesto released in August 1936, demanded abolition of
thezamindari system and cancellation of rural debts, and in October 1937, it adopted red flag as
its banner.[4] Soon, its leaders became increasingly distant with Congress, and repeatedly came
in confrontation with Congress governments, in Bihar and United Province. [4][6]
In the subsequent years, the movement was increasingly dominated by Socialists and
Communists as it moved away from the Congress,[2] by 1938 Haripura session of the Congress,
under the presidency of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the rift became evident,[4] and by May
1942, the Communist Party of India, which was finally legalized by then government in July 1942,
[7]
had taken over AIKS, all across India including Bengal where its membership grew
considerably.[6] It took on the Communist party's line of People's War, and stayed away from
the Quit India Movement which started in August 1942, though this also meant it losing its
popular base and many of its members defied party orders and joined the movement, and
prominent members like Ranga, Indulal Yagnik and Saraswati soon left the organisation, which
increasing found it difficult to approach the peasant without the watered-down approach of pro-

British and pro-war, and increasing its pro-nationalist agenda, much to the dismay of the British
Raj which always though Communist would help them in countering the nationalist movement. [8]
The Communist Party of India split into two in 1964, following which so did the All India Kisan
Sabha, which each faction affiliated to the splinters.

Present organisations[edit]
Currently two organizations work under the name of AIKS:

All India Kisan Sabha (Ashoka Road), attached to Communist Party of India (Marxist)

All India Kisan Sabha (Ajoy Bhawan), attached to Communist Party of India

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