Sampoorna Kranti movement

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political movement social movement

The Sampoorna Kranti movement was a mass socio-political campaign led by Jayaprakash Narayan in the mid-1970s in India, calling for a “total revolution” against corruption, authoritarianism, and social injustice, and playing a key role in the events leading up to the Emergency.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Sampoorna Kranti	2
Sampoorna Kranti Andolan	1
Sampoorna Kranti movement canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11739428 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

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Target entity: Sampoorna Kranti movement
Context triple: [Total Revolution movement, alsoKnownAs, Sampoorna Kranti movement]

A. Bhoodan movement
The Bhoodan movement was a mid-20th-century Indian land reform campaign led by Vinoba Bhave that encouraged wealthy landowners to voluntarily donate land to landless peasants.
B. Self-Respect Movement
The Self-Respect Movement was a South Indian social reform movement that challenged caste hierarchy, Brahminical dominance, and gender inequality, and laid the ideological foundation for Dravidian politics.
C. Swaraj movement
The Swaraj movement was an early 20th-century Indian political campaign demanding self-rule and greater autonomy from British colonial rule, prominently associated with leaders like Motilal Nehru.
D. Andhra movement
The Andhra movement was a political and social campaign in pre-independence and early post-independence India that sought a separate Telugu-speaking state, ultimately leading to the formation of Andhra State in 1953.
E. Swadeshi movement
The Swadeshi movement was a major early 20th-century Indian nationalist campaign that promoted the boycott of British goods and the use of indigenous products to resist colonial rule.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Sampoorna Kranti movement
Target entity description: The Sampoorna Kranti movement was a mass socio-political campaign led by Jayaprakash Narayan in the mid-1970s in India, calling for a “total revolution” against corruption, authoritarianism, and social injustice, and playing a key role in the events leading up to the Emergency.

A. Bhoodan movement
The Bhoodan movement was a mid-20th-century Indian land reform campaign led by Vinoba Bhave that encouraged wealthy landowners to voluntarily donate land to landless peasants.
B. Self-Respect Movement
The Self-Respect Movement was a South Indian social reform movement that challenged caste hierarchy, Brahminical dominance, and gender inequality, and laid the ideological foundation for Dravidian politics.
C. Swaraj movement
The Swaraj movement was an early 20th-century Indian political campaign demanding self-rule and greater autonomy from British colonial rule, prominently associated with leaders like Motilal Nehru.
D. Andhra movement
The Andhra movement was a political and social campaign in pre-independence and early post-independence India that sought a separate Telugu-speaking state, ultimately leading to the formation of Andhra State in 1953.
E. Swadeshi movement
The Swadeshi movement was a major early 20th-century Indian nationalist campaign that promoted the boycott of British goods and the use of indigenous products to resist colonial rule.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	political movement ⓘ social movement ⓘ
aimedAt	democratic reform ⓘ electoral reform ⓘ ending corruption in public life ⓘ non-violent systemic change ⓘ social equality ⓘ
country	India ⓘ
hasEffect	contributed to declaration of the Emergency in India ⓘ delegitimization of Indira Gandhi’s rule among sections of the public ⓘ formation of a broad anti-Congress front ⓘ increased public debate on civil liberties ⓘ increased public debate on constitutional rights ⓘ influenced 1977 Indian general election outcome ⓘ mass mobilization of peasants ⓘ mass mobilization of students ⓘ paved the way for the Janata Party coalition ⓘ political instability in India in the mid-1970s ⓘ politicization of youth in North India ⓘ rise of non-Congress governments in several Indian states ⓘ strengthening of opposition parties ⓘ
hasMainSubject	total revolution ⓘ
ideology	democratic socialism ⓘ non-violence ⓘ
inspiredBy	Gandhian principles ⓘ Sarvodaya ideology ⓘ
languageOfName	Hindi NERFINISHED ⓘ
leader	Jayaprakash Narayan NERFINISHED ⓘ
literalMeaningOfName	Total Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ
location	Bihar NERFINISHED ⓘ Patna NERFINISHED ⓘ
method	civil disobedience ⓘ mass protests ⓘ rallies ⓘ strikes ⓘ
opposedTo	Congress Party government NERFINISHED ⓘ Indira Gandhi government ⓘ authoritarianism ⓘ corruption ⓘ social injustice ⓘ
participant	Sarvodaya workers ⓘ socialist parties in India ⓘ student organizations in Bihar ⓘ
significantEvent	June 5 1974 Patna rally ⓘ
slogan	Sampoorna Kranti NERFINISHED ⓘ
startTime	1974 ⓘ
temporalRelation	preceded the Emergency in India ⓘ
timePeriod	mid-1970s ⓘ

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Total Revolution movement → alsoKnownAs → Sampoorna Kranti movement ⓘ

Total Revolution movement → slogan → Sampoorna Kranti movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sampoorna Kranti

JP Movement → alsoKnownAs → Sampoorna Kranti movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sampoorna Kranti Andolan

JP Movement → slogan → Sampoorna Kranti movement ⓘ