Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh - Sir C.P.N. and Zamindari

Sir C.P.N. and Zamindari

Belonging to one of the most elite, enlightened and aristocratic landed Brahmin family, he opposed the abolition of zamindari tooth and nail in the Legislature in league with Maharajadhiraj Sir Kameshwar Singh of Raj Darbhanga who took it to courts. In 1938, the Indian National Congress had firmly aligned itself to the zamindars and was against revolutionary leaders like Swami Sahajanand Saraswati that fulsome tributes were paid to it by noted landlords. Sir C.P.N. Sinha, one of the bigger zamindars and the leader of the opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly was so satisfied with the Bihar experience that he spoke of an all-India Congress-zamindar agreement.

Sir C.P.N. was the leader of the pro-establishment landed aristocracy. His speeches from the oppositio bench against Restoration of the Bakasht Land Act and the Bihr Tenancy Act by the Congress Ministry during 1937-39 and Sri Krishna Sinha's forceful defence, though they added a memorable chapter in the province's legislative history, marked the division of the aristocracy into pro and anti-Congress factions.