Year-long events to mark 75th anniversary of historic Kagodu Satyagraha
The 75th anniversary of the Kagodu Satyagraha, recognized as the first peasant movement in independent India, will be commemorated through a year-long series of events. The movement began in 1951 when tenant farmers in Kagodu village resisted unfair changes in agricultural yield-sharing practices. Their defiance against landlords and subsequent police crackdown drew national attention and influenced land reform policies.
- ▪The Kagodu Satyagraha began in March 1951 in Kagodu village, Sagar taluk, over disputes on the kolaga measurement system.
- ▪Tenant farmers protested against landlords who unilaterally altered terms of produce-sharing.
- ▪The farmers were barred from farmland and faced police violence and mass arrests when they refused to back down.
- ▪The movement gained national attention and played a pivotal role in shaping land reforms in India.
- ▪Progressive organizations are organizing year-long events to honor the 75th anniversary of the movement.
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Activists from several progressive organisations have decided to observe the 75th anniversary of the historic Kagodu Satyagraha — considered the first peasant movement in independent India — through a series of programmes spread across this year. The initiative aims to revive public memory of a movement that shaped the course of land reforms in the country.In March 1951, tenant farmers of Kagodu village in Sagar taluk revolted against landlords over a dispute regarding the size of the kolaga (a container used to measure and divide agricultural produce). Dissatisfied with the landlords’ unilateral changes to the terms of yield-sharing, the tenants refused to comply. The landlords retaliated by barring them from entering the very land they had tilled for generations.
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