Baba Ram Chandra: Difference between revisions

'''Baba Ram Chandra''' (1864/1875–1950)<ref name=skmkk>S.K. Mitral and Kapil Kumar, ''[https://www.academia.edu/17028284/Baba_Ram_Chandra_and_Peasant_Upsurge_in_Oudh_1920-21 Baba Ram Chandra and Peasant Upsurge in Oudh, 1920-21]'', Social Scientist, No. 71 (June 1978)</ref><ref name=ih>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MazdaWXQFuQC&pg=SL3-PA413 Ram Chandra (Baba] in ''Indian History'', 26th edition, ed. V.K. Agnihotri, Allied Publishers, 1988</ref><ref name=dnb>Dictionary of National Biography, Vol I (A-D), ed. S.P. Sen, Institute of Historical Studies, Kolkata, 1972 pp. 452-53.</ref> was an [[India]]n [[trade union]]ist who organised the farmers of [[Oudh]], India into forming a united front to fight against the abuses of landlords in 1920s and 1930s. He was also an influential figure in the [[history of Fiji]], and owed his inspiration to take up the cause of the down-trodden to his 12 years as an [[indenture]]d labourer in [[Fiji]] and to his efforts to end the indenture system. He is one of the prime characters in Kamla Kant Tripathi's history based novel "Bedakhal".

Ram Chandra was born in a small village in [[Gwalior State]] in 1864 <ref name=skmkk/> or 1875.<ref name=ih/><ref name=dnb/> His real name was Shridhar Balwant . He left for Fiji as an indentured labourer<ref name=":0" /> in 1904 after changing his name to Ram Chandra Rao in order to conceal his identity as a Brahmin, since Brahmins were not preferred as indentured labourers. He died in the year 1950.