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{{short description|Indian militant peasant movement leader}}
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'''Madari Pasi''' was a leader of the Indian peasant movement [[Eka Movement]].<ref name="Sarkar1989">{{cite book|first=Sumit|last=Sarkar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kOawCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA224|title=Modern India 1885–1947|date=24 January 1989|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-349-19712-5|pages=224–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RAON5AW4yUEC&pg=PA238|title=A Comprehensive History of India|date=1 December 2003|publisher=Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd|isbn=978-81-207-2506-5|pages=238–}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=मदारी पासी उर्फ एक सदी पूर्व की किसान-गाथा|url=https://www.amarujala.com/columns/opinion/madari-pasi-saga-of-a-century-ago|access-date=2020-09-01|website=Amar Ujala|language=hi}}</ref>

==History==
[[Eka Movement]] had been an offshoot of [[Indian National Congress]], associated with [[Non-cooperation movement (1919–22)|Non-Cooperation Movement]](NCM). But when the Congress was busy in the nationwide Non Cooperation Movement, it somewhat neglected the ongoing Eka Movement. It was this time when Madari Pasi established himself as a charismatic grassroot leader among the kisans involved in the Eka Movement. He united the kisans and petty zamindars from all religions and castes. He pushed the movement in to a violent route. He violently assaulted zamindars, karindas, taluqdars and thikadars and even imprisoned them in their own homes. He began to distribute landowning rights to tenants and petty landholders. His name was associated with dread.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Eka Movement, Bookstawa YouTube Channel|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAFLesmFdVQ|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=YouTube}}</ref> Sitapur, Barbanki and Hardoi districts of UP saw aggressive peasant movement called Eka movement, led by Madari Pasi and British Government suppressed the movement within a year but failed to arrest the leader Madari Pasi.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chopra |first1=P N |title=A comprehensive history of modern India |date=2003 |publisher=Sterling |location=New Delhi |isbn=9788120725065 |page=238 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RAON5AW4yUEC&dq=%22Madari+Pasi%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA238 |access-date=5 April 2023}}</ref>

[[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]] with his NCM-[[Khilafat Movement]], after hearing about the violent activities of the Eka Movement members, disassociated himself from the Eka Movement. After losing the support of Congress, it became much easier for the British colonial authorities to suppress it. By 1922 the movement was completely suppressed. After the crackdown by the colonial authorities, the movement went underground. He tried to associate the peasants with [[Hindustan Socialist Republican Association]]. Even though there is a confusion, it is generally believed that Madari Pasi died on 27 or 28 March in 1931 while underground.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Remembering Madari Pasi: The Uncelebrated Peasant Leader of the Eka Movement|url=https://thewire.in/history/madari-pasi-peasant-leader-eka-movement-british-colonial-rule|access-date=2020-09-26|website=The Wire}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Pasi (caste)|Pasi caste]]
*[[Bijli Pasi]]
*[[Uda Devi]]

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