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State PCS PYQPrelims 2023

BPSC – Combined Competitive Examination · Question 128

The Bakasht Movement in Bihar during 1937–38 was organised by:

  1. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
  2. Jayaprakash Narayan
  3. Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
  4. Peer Ali Khan
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Answer: (C) Swami Sahajanand Saraswati

Explanation

The Bakasht movement opposed zamindars' seizure of tenants' land (bakasht land) under Sahajanand's Kisan Sabha.

  • (A) Incorrect

    Wrong: founder of Arya Samaj (died 1883).

  • (B) Incorrect

    Wrong: not the organiser.

  • (C) Correct

    Correct: the Kisan Sabha leader led the Bakasht struggle against eviction from tenanted land.

  • (D) Incorrect

    Wrong: a 1857 revolutionary of Patna.