BHARATIYA KHET MAZDOOR UNION - FEDERATION - PHASE I

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This collection is a comprehensive digital collection on Agricultural Workers Union in India. It includes a whole set of documents such as various reports of Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union (BKMU), movements such as land struggle, wage struggle, atrocities etc., documents of BKMU meetings, conferences, seminars, conventions etc., publications such as booklets, pamphlets, souvenirs, journals and so on.

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Start date: 1970End date: 1979

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    Documents of International Labour Organisation (ILO) National Seminar for Trade Union Leaders on Rural Workers' Organisation
    (Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1978-11-20)
    Documents of ILO National Seminar for Trade Union Leaders in India on Rural Workers’ Organisations held in Varanasi on 20-24 November, 1978.
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    Correspondence on the Struggle for Minimum Wages
    (Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1975)
    This file contains important historically relevant data both of primary and secondary types on the issue of minimum wages an its nuances during the 1970s. This particular file will provide a good glimpse terms of both handwritten notes, newspaper clippings and government notification giving the details regarding wages for agricultural labour in the State of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan; Minimum wages in Uttar Pradesh revised for Farm Labour, Memo-submitted by Punjab BKMU for upward revision of minimum wages for Agricultural Workers; notification by West Bengal Govt. on minimum wage payable to employees of agriculture; report stating situation of wages in various states of which highest wage payable in Punjab, wage revision of agricultural labour in MP details provided by B.K. Gupta; Andhra Pradesh Government notification dated December 2, 1995 on details of minimum wage for agricultural labour as of 1975; wage of Rajasthan in 1979.
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    Brief Note on Agricultural Wages in West Bengal: Arithmetic of Rural Poverty
    (Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1973) Labour Department, Government of West Bengal
    A brief note on Agricultural Wages in Five Districts namely, Birbhum, Bankura, Nadia, Malda and 24-Parganas of West Bengal by Labour Department, Government of West Bengal.
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    Letter from Tamil Nadu Agricultural Workers’ Union
    (Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1976-3-19) Tamil Nadu Agricultural Workers’ Union
    The document provide details of the activities and programs of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Workers’ Union. It presents an analysis of the situation. Near Chidambaram, the place of the famous Annamalai ‘Varsity, in one village, caste Hindus attacked the Harijans in the course of watering the fields and attacked their fields. And set fire to their huts. The document also describes the difference between padiyal and adaiyal: the two types of agricultural workers.
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    Documents related to Land Reforms
    (Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1973) Punjab Khet Mazdoor Sabha
    Documents related to Land-reforms.
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    Proceedings of the Meetings of the Working Committee, Resolutions and a Note on Punjab Land Reforms Bill passed by Punjab State Assembly
    (Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1975) Punjab Khet Mazdoor Sabha
    Proceedings of the meetings of working committee of Punjab Khet Mazdoor Sabha and State Khet Mazdoor Sub-committee; resolutions and a note on Punjab land reforms bill passed by Punjab State Assembly (by master Hari Singh, a veteran Khet Mazdoor Leader).
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    Khet Mazdoor Front Report - 9th Party Conference on 15-19 September, 1971 at Muktsar, Punjab
    (Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1971)
    The report deals with the work of the Party (CPI) in the agricultural labourers’ front over a period of time i.e. since the previous party conf. It claims that now a qualitative break had been achieved and the class had turned its face towards the class organizations - Khet Mazdoor Sabha and the Communist Party. The khet mazdoors participated in the various mass movements and morchas like that of 1972, 1973 etc. Punjab Khet Mazdoor Sabha had considerable increase in its membership. The Punjab movement stood second only to that of Andhra Pradesh. It was Punjab which held the first all India conference in 1968. The document describes the gains of the movement in the period. It gives details of land auction and distribution. It deals with land reforms. The discussions and decisions of the Rahon KMU conference are described, where a charter was adopted and later distributed widely. It deals with the question of the upward revision of the wages, land reform laws, evacuee land question, free house sites, memorandum to the Parliamentary Committee on Untouchability, Amritsar session of the organization (1973), memo on 5-year plan, khet mazdoor school and several other questions.
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    Documents pertaining to the Inhuman Atrocities by the Landowners on the Harijans in Bhind District, Madhya Pradesh
    (Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1977)
    The reports describe severe atrocities on the Harijans of the villages Mehgaon, Anjanu and Barera. They include systematic attempts to maim the agricultural workers by disabling their hands and feet by beating them and by other means. When the Harijans were to work on the fields on 9.9.77 in v. Barera, they were attacked by the goons of the landowners armed with lathis, farsas and spears, and were seriously injured. Each of the Harijans was severely beaten. The doctors refused to examine and report the injuries. The workers were rendered unable to work.
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    Letters related to various Activities, Programs and the Situation of the Labourers
    (1977)
    Letters describe the attendance of about 200 delegates attending a conf from 40 villages in Sahdol. There were about 30-40 thousand small owners without pattas, which was big issue. Land distribution and conventions is an important theme through the latters. The letters reflect constant struggles of the landless to gain possession of their lands after receiving the Pattas. Satna, Chatarpur, Sahdol etc. are in the limelight.
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    Circular, Handbills and Other Documents related to Bihar Rajya Khet Mazdoor Union
    (Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union, 1975) Bihar Rajya Khet Mazdoor Union
    Circular to State Council Member regarding decisions taken in the State Council Meeting of Bihar Khet Mazdoor Union, and Handbills & Other Documents related to Bihar Rajya Khet Mazdoor Union druing 1975-1980.