In 1918, the United Provinces Kisan Sabha was formed by which of the following leaders?

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Correct — D, Indra Narayan Dwivedi. The United Provinces (U.P.) Kisan Sabha was set up in February 1918 at Lucknow by Gauri Shankar Mishra and Indra Narayan Dwivedi, with the active support of Madan Mohan Malaviya. Of the four names offered here, only Indra Narayan Dwivedi was one of its founders; the others belong to later or different peasant movements.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Nehru was drawn into the Awadh peasant agitation only from 1920-21, after visiting the peasants of Pratapgarh; he was not among the founders of the 1918 U.P. Kisan Sabha.  (b) Baba Ramchandra organised the peasants of Awadh and founded the Oudh (Awadh) Kisan Sabha in 1920 — a separate, more militant body formed two years after the U.P. Kisan Sabha.  (c) He pioneered the Bihar peasant movement — founding the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (1929) and becoming first president of the All India Kisan Sabha (1936) — and had no role in the 1918 U.P. body.

Concept: The U.P. Kisan Sabha (February 1918, Lucknow) was one of the earliest organised peasant bodies in colonial India, founded by Gauri Shankar Mishra and Indra Narayan Dwivedi with Madan Mohan Malaviya's backing; within about a year it had hundreds of branches. It was soon overtaken by the more militant Oudh (Awadh) Kisan Sabha (1920) under Baba Ramchandra, which drew in Jawaharlal Nehru — a lineage running U.P. Kisan Sabha (1918) to Oudh Kisan Sabha (1920) to the later Bihar and All-India Kisan Sabhas.

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