RAS question
The Telangana Peasant Movement (1946-51) was led by:
Correct answer: (B) Communist Party of India.
The Telangana Peasant Movement of 1946-51 was led by the Communist Party of India against feudal exploitation under the Nizam's rule and the deshmukhs in Telangana.
Explanation
The Telangana Peasant Movement is a leadership-identification question from modern Indian history, and the decisive point is that the movement was led by the Communist Party of India. The struggle was directed against feudal exploitation in Telangana under the Nizam's rule and the landlord class known as deshmukhs. That makes option B the only option that matches both the political leadership and the agrarian character of the movement. The other parties named in the options may belong to the broader political history of the period, but this specific 1946-51 peasant movement is tied to CPI leadership and to anti-feudal mobilisation against the Nizam's regime and local landlords.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) The Muslim League is wrong because it was not connected with the Telangana peasant mobilisation against the Nizam's rule and deshmukhs.
- (C) The Socialist Party is wrong because the movement's stated leadership was the Communist Party of India, not the socialist organisation named in this option.
- (D) The Indian National Congress is wrong because this specific peasant movement had CPI leadership, not Congress leadership.
Concept
This tests the modern Indian history theme of peasant and agrarian movements, especially the link between social conflict and political leadership. It recurs in RAS because such movements connect regional history with broader questions on anti-feudal mobilisation.