Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
| Sahajanand Saraswati | |
|---|---|
| Born |
22 February 1889 Ghazipur, North-Western Provinces, British India |
| Died | 25 June 1950 (aged 61) Patna, India |
| Occupation | Social reformer, historian, philosopher, writer, ascetic, revolutionary, Marxist, politician |
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati 
pronunciation (1889–1950), born in Ghazipur district, North-Western Provinces in British India, was an ascetic, a nationalist and a peasant leader of India.
Although born in North-Western Provinces (present-day Uttar Pradesh), his social and political activities focussed mostly on Bihar in the initial days, and gradually spread to the rest of India with the formation of the All India Kisan Sabha. He had set up an ashram at Bihta, near Patna and carried out most of his work in the later part of his life from there. He was an intellectual, prolific writer, social reformer and revolutionary.
Sahajanand Saraswati was born in Deva Village near Dullahpur, Ghazipur district in eastern North-Western Provinces in 1889 to a family of the Bhumihar clan. He was the last of six sons and was then called Naurang Rai. His mother died when he was a child and he was raised by an aunt. His father, Beni Rai, was a cultivator and knew little about religion.
The Kisan Sabha movement started in Bihar under the leadership of Saraswati who had formed in 1929 the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BPKS) in order to mobilise peasant grievances against the zamindari attacks on their occupancy rights, and thus sparking the farmers' movements in India.
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