Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Rise of Popular Movements

Question:

Under whose leadership the peasants in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh organised a massive agitation and demanded for the redistribution of land to the cultivators?

(1) Trade Unions
(2) Naxalites
(3) Socialist Party
(4) Communist Party

Options:

1

2

3

4

Correct Answer:

4

Explanation:

In the meantime, a movement of the people of Hyderabad State against the Nizam’s rule gathered force. The peasantry in the Telangana region in particular, was the victim of Nizam’s oppressive rule and rose against him. Women who had seen the worst of this oppression joined the movement in large numbers. Hyderabad town was the nerve centre of this movement. The Communists and the Hyderabad Congress were in the forefront of the movement.