The demand for the Tebhaga Peasant Movement in Bengal was for

The answer is A. The Tebhaga movement (1946-47) was a sharecroppers' movement led largely by the Bengal Provincial Kisan Sabha. The bargadars, who cultivated land owned by jotedars and zamindars, demanded that they receive two-thirds of the produce instead of the customary one-half, so the landlord's share would fall to one-third. The name itself means 'three shares'.

• B is wrong: The demand was for a fair share of the produce, not for ownership of land. Ownership-oriented demands belong to other agrarian struggles and later land reform debates.
• C is wrong: Zamindari abolition came after independence through state land reform laws in the 1950s. Tebhaga did not seek the end of the zamindari system.
• D is wrong: Debt relief was a feature of earlier peasant revolts, such as the Deccan Riots of 1875. Tebhaga was about the division of crop share.

The core concept is sharecropping and the agrarian structure created under colonial land revenue arrangements. For Mains, link it to the question of tenancy rights, which Operation Barga in West Bengal (late 1970s) later addressed by recording sharecroppers' names.

Trap: Aspirants often merge Tebhaga with broader demands for land ownership or zamindari abolition. Remember that Tebhaga was a specific demand about the crop share.