Bihar Movement
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Bihar Movement was a movement initiated by students in the Indian state of Bihar in 1974 and led by the veteran Gandhian Socialist Jayaprakash Narayan against misrule of and corruption in then government . By 1975 it had attracted a mass following amongst all sections of the population in Bihar and in some other states. It is also called "total revolution".
[edit] References
- Lalan Tiwari, Democracy and Dissent (A Case Study of the Bihar Movement 1974-75), South Asia Books (1987) ISBN 81-7099-008-4
[edit] External links
- Jayaprakash Narayan, An Open Letter to Mrs. Indira Gandhi, December 5 1975
- JP: the prophet of people's power, The Hindu, October 11, 2002
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