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When was Bengu Peasants Movement started?

The Begun Peasants Movement was one of the farmer's movements of Rajasthan during British Raj in India. Farmers from the Bengu thikanas in Chittorgarh was suffering under the British rule as they had to pay a large number of cesses and customs duties and also very high land revenues. Inspired by the Bijolia Peasants Movement, the Bengu farmers gathered in Bhairokund, Menal in 1921 which signifies the beginning of their movement against the oppressive British Rule. The initial leadership of this movement was under Vijay Singh Pathik who later transferred it to Ramanrayan Chaudhury.


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