Baba Ram Chandra (1864/1875–1950)[1][2][3] was an Indian trade unionist who organised the farmers of Awadh, India into forming a united front to fight against the abuses of landlords in 1920s and 1930s.
He stayed in Fiji for (6+7) years and took active part in the movement to emancipate the lot of the indentured labourers.
He was responsible for the staging of Ram Lila in Fiji which helped in creating a sense of solidarity among the Indian indentured labourers.
He smuggled into India an article on the deplorable and inhuman conditions of indentured labourers, which was published in Bharat Mitra, a newspaper from Calcutta.
The article created such a furore that Ram Chandra was advised by his friends to leave Fiji before the authorities were able to lay their hands on him.
He moved around the region with a copy of the Ramayana under his arm, blending readings from this popular Hindu epic with denunciations of both the British Raj and the landlords, and appealed to the peasants to act together against their exploiters.
He established Oudh Kisan Sabha and organised farmers' protest, but he did not get support from Indian National Congress.