• One of the great post second world war peasant agitation was the Tebhaga movement. It was the most extensive of all the post war agrarian agitations. The uprising originated in the share cropping system that prevailed in Bengal. By this time a new class of rural exploiters, the Jotedars, had emerged. They rented out land to landless peasants on the basis of sharing the crops in equal halves. The Jotedars exacted illegally many other privileges. The condition of peasants worsened further by inflationary war time situation and famine. In September 1946, the Bengal Provincial Kisan Sabha gave a call to implement, through mass struggle, the Flood Commission recommendations of tebhaga - two-thirds' share - to the bargardars, the share croppers also known as bagehasi or adhyar, instead of the one-half share. The central slogan was 'nij khamare dhan tolo'- i.e., sharecroppers taking the paddy to their own threshing floor and not to the jotedar's house, as before, so as to enforce tebhaga.
• Indigo revolt: Indigo Revolt (1859-60): The Indigo revolt of Bengal was directed against British planters who exploited the local peasants by forcing them to grow indigo on their lands instead of the more paying crops like rice. The planters forced the peasants to take advance sums and enter into fraudulent contracts which were the least profitable to them. It was led by Digambar Biswas and Bishnu Biswas who organised the peasants into a counter force to deal with the planters lathiyals (armed retainers).
• Pabna Movement (1872-76): led by Shah Chandra Roy, Shambhu Pal, Khoodi Mollah and supported by B.C. Chatterjee and R.C. Dutt (1873; Pabna district, East Bengal, now in Bangladesh) the peasantry was oppressed by zamindars through frequent recourse to ejection, harassment, arbitrary enhancement of rent through ceases (abwabs) and use of force. In 1873 an Agrarian League was formed in the Yusufzahi Pargana of Pabna district, payments of enhanced rents were refused and the peasants fought the zamindars in the courts. Similar leagues were formed in the adjoining districts of Bengal.
• Moplah Rebellion in Malabar: Moplahs were Muslim peasants settled in the Malabar region of Kerala. It was an armed uprising in 1921 against British authority and Hindu landlords. Their grievances related to lack of any security of tenure, renewal fees, high rents and other oppressive landlord exac­tions.