ABSTRACT
By the end of the 1920s, Bihar Kisan Sabha (Peasant Conference) had been organized by Swami Sahajanand and his fellow-workers. The peasant movement received further impetus in the province when the Congress Socialist Party, a leftist group in the Indian National Congress, came into existence in 1934 at Patna. The outbreak of the Second World War was a signal for the nationalist forces to intensify their activities. The changed attitude of the Communist Party towards British imperialism owing to the exigencies of war affected the course of the peasant movement. The files of the Hunkar during 1940s, provides detailed information about different facets of the movement. As a part of its policy of collaboration with the British authorities, the Kisan Sabha, on the political front, advised its members and sympathizers to refrain from supporting the 1942 movement. They were not to participate in violent activities.
