The full impact of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati on the social andpolitical history
of twentieth-century India is only now beginningto be fully understood and
appreciated. A man of enormousintellectual and personal complexity he came from
Eastern U.P.while his major political role was played out in the
neighbouringstate of Bihar in the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha and after 1936on
the national stage in All India Kisan Sabha. The Khet Mazdoortract presented
here in an edited translation and in the originalHindi, provides textual access
to an activist constantly on theleading edge of social, cultural, and political
change, which forSahajanand had to be transformational in character. Hence,
givenhis background in representing the