ABSTRACT
The turbulent years of the ministry in Bihar revolved around division between the controlling Right-wing element of the Congress and the influential Left-wing characterized most actively in the leadership of the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha. Practically, the issue at stake was the compromise agrarian legislation of the Congress in power, and the argument of the Kisan Sabha both with the content of the amended tenancy law and the method by which it was achieved. The resignation of the Congress ministry and the advent of war introduced conditions and policies in Bihar by which peasant activity was limited and ultimately curtailed almost entirely. One aspect of the problem may be considered positive in nature. The Socialists supported the official Gandhian position both at Tripuri and subsequently at Ramgarh, in the face of the more extreme opposition of the balance of the Left.
