Question

Write about the work of Sane Guruji in eastern Khandesh.

Answer 1

Sane Guruji was a social activist and freedom fighter from Maharashtra, India. Being from a rural background, he understood the abject misery that Indian farmers faced when their crops failed either because of the whims of nature or because of the apathy of the ruling class. In 1938, when the crops in Eastern Khandesh were destroyed because of heavy flooding, the farmers were faced with the inability to give the fixed amount of land revenue and were faced with the loss of their farming lands. To provide relief to the farmers, Sane Guruji organised meetings and processions involving the farmers. He took out protest marches to the collector’s office in order to notify the authorities about the problems the farmers were facing. This acted as a catalyst to encourage peasant participation in the independence movement later on.