ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>KIRT&#298 KIS&#256N SABH&#256</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="KIRT*,KISN,SABH"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279KIRT&#298 KIS&#256N SABH&#256, a <i>sabh&#257</i>, i.e. society or party, of the <i>kirt&#299s</i> (workers) and <i>k&#299s&#257ns</i> (peasants), fostered and, to some extent, funded by the <u>Gh</u>adr Party, was established on 12 April 1928 with a view to organizing small agriculturists and industrial workers and other low-paid urban labour, for revolutionary activity. The Sabh&#257 owed its origin to the Kirt&#299 movement started by Bh&#257&#299 Santokh Si&#7749gh (d. 1927), a <u>Gh</u>adr leader who had spent two years in Moscow "studying Soviet methods of village propaganda." Initially, he laid out secret plans to prepare the masses for action. He then started propaganda through the press. To this end, he launched a monthly magazine in Punjabi, the <i>Kirt&#299</i>, the first issue of which was published from Amritsar in February 1926.The journal became the mouthpiece of the Kirt&#299 K&#299s&#257n Sabh&#257. Bh&#257&#299 Santokh Si&#7749gh was helped in his work, which was first carried on secretly, by Bh&#257g Si&#7749gh Canad&#299an, who was co-founder with Santokh Si&#7749gh of the <i>Kirt&#299</i>, Karam Si&#7749gh Ch&#299m&#257, B&#257b&#257 Vas&#257kh&#257 Si&#7749gh and Kart&#257r Si&#7749gh of Lat&#257l&#257. They were joined by Sant&#257 Si&#7749gh of Ga&#7751&#7693ivi&#7751&#7693, also trained in Soviet methods of rural agitation, and Dasaundh&#257 Si&#7749gh and Gajja&#7751 Si&#7749gh who had taken an active part in Soviet propaganda in China and had been deported to India in March 1928. A little later came Harj&#257p Si&#7749gh, according to government papers a "notorious" <u>Gh</u>adr emissary, under whose direction the Sabh&#257 suddenly changed its tactics and emerged into the open with a definite constitution and programme. It was in furtherance of this new policy that an openly inflammatory Gurmukh&#299 weekly <i>Mazd&#363r K&#299s&#257n</i> was also started.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The first Kirt&#299 Kis&#257n conference, presided over by Professor Chhab&#299l D&#257s of the National School of Politics, was held on 28-30 September 1928 at Lyallpur. Among the 12 resolutions adopted was one declaring complete independence for the country as the goal and rejecting the recommendations of the Nehr&#363 Committee which had limited it to dominion status. The Sabh&#257 held another conference (13 October 1928) in Meerut which provided the authorities a pretext to launch the Meerut Communist conspiracy case and arrest many of the workers. The 1929 annual session of the Sabh&#257 was held at Lahore during the Christmas week. Throughout this period the <i>Kirt&#299</i> continued to disseminate Communist thought and preach the creed of revolt against British imperialism. Every issue of the paper was prescribed and prosecution launched against its dummy editors and the press at which it was printed. The Kirt&#299 Kis&#257n conference held on 4 March 1931 at Anandpur S&#257hib on the occasion of the Hol&#257 Mohall&#257 festival called upon workers and peasants to set up units of the Sabh&#257 in the villages. The Irwin G&#257ndh&#299 Pact (1931), which failed to secure release of the youth involved in cases of violence, and the hanging (23 March) of Bhagat Si&#7749gh, R&#257jgur&#363 and Sukhdev were subjected to severe censure at the annual session of the Sabh&#257 convened at Kar&#257ch&#299 on 29 March, sharing the <i>pa&#7751&#7693&#257l</i> with the Naujav&#257n Bh&#257rat Sabh&#257.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Kirt&#299 Kis&#257n Sabh&#257 was declared unlawful under the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1908, vide notification No. 12467SB, dated 10 September 1934. The Sabh&#257 ceased to exist thereafter but the movement assumed other names and continued with the task it had taken upon itself.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">Sohan Si&#7749gh Josh<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>