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eventually went to plead for their release so that the harvest work could go on."32
Problems of a reformist presence within the movement and the influence of alien ideologies held back the spread of the movement to other sections of people within the area as well as to contiguous areas. But the struggle continues—fighting social, economic and political dimensions of historical oppression and seeking under more complicated conditions, to build a strong movement with a wide sweep to effectively resolve the structure of oppressive relations in 'the countryside.
(Concluded)
1 Political Resolution of the All India Kisan Sabha cited in R P Dutt, India Today, Manisha 1970, pp 277-78.
2 Government Order No 1693, dated 11 October 1938, Development Department Government of Madras.
3 Government Order No 6287, dated 26 February 1947, Public (General), Government of Madras.
4 Government Order No 1693, op. cit.
5 KG Alexander Agrarian Tension in Thanjavur, National Institute of Community
Development, Hyderabad, p 22. e Janasakti, 23 June 1943.
7 Government Order l No 2222, Ms, dated 6 June 1946, Development Department^ Government of Madras.
8 Draft Report of the Adjudicator, Government Order No 4685, dated 23 December 1946, Development Department, Government of Madras.
9 Alexander, op. cit.
10 Government Order No 2222, op. cit.
11 Ibid.
12 Government Order No 4685, op.cit.
13 The Hindu, 25 May 1946.
14 Draft Report of the Adjudicator, op. cit. ^ Ibid. ^ Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Government Order No 4685, op. cit.
20 Ibid.
21 The Hindu, 11 December 1946.
22 Government Order No 6287 op. cit.
23 The Hindu, 11 December 1946.
24 Government Order, No 2222 Ms op. cit.
25 Government Order No 1693, op. cit. ^ The Hin du, 4 January 1947.
27 The Hindu, 1 July 1947.
28 Government Order, No 5663, Ms dated 16 November 1948, Development Department, Government of Madras.
29 Madras Legislative Assembly Debates, (MLAD) January 30, 1947.
30 MLAD, 10 February 1947.
81 Ibid.
82 Kathleen Gough, "Peasant Resistance and Revolt in South India," in Socialist Digest August 1968, p 119.