(i) Here the movement was against talukdars and landlords who demanded from peasant's exorbitantly high rents and a variety of other cesses.
(ii) The peasants had to beg or work at landlords farms without any payment.
(iii) As tenants they had no security of tenure were regularly evicted so that they have no right over the leased land.
(iv) The peasants demanded reduction of land revenue and abolition of begar.
(v) They also demanded the social boycott of oppressive landlords.
(vi) In the meantime Jawaharlal Nehru began going around the villages in Awadh.
(vii) The Awadh Kisan Sabha was set up in the villages.
(viii) The peasant movement, however, developed in forms that the Congress leadership was unhappy with.
(ix) As the movement spread, the houses of talukdars and merchants were attacked : bazaars were looted and grain hoards were taken over.