Describe the Gandhiji journey to Champaran district of Bihar
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When Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in 1916, and saw peasants in Northern India oppressed by indigo planters, he tried to use the same methods that he had used in South Africa to organize mass uprisings by people to protest against injustices. Another important Satyagraha that followed the Champaran revolt was Kheda Satyagraha. Indigo was forcibly grown by the British in North India since 1750 to extract opium for the British trade to China, and thence smuggled to USA (where it was illegal).[2]
Champaran Satyagraha was the first popular satyagraha (standing up for truth) to be started, but the word Satyagraha was used for the first time in Anti Rowlatt Act agitation. Champaran gave direction to India's youth and freedom struggle, which was tottering between moderates who proscribed Indian participation within the British colonial system, and the extremists from Bengal who advocated the use of violent methods to topple the British colonialists in India.[3]
Champaran Satyagraha was the first popular satyagraha (standing up for truth) to be started, but the word Satyagraha was used for the first time in Anti Rowlatt Act agitation. Champaran gave direction to India's youth and freedom struggle, which was tottering between moderates who proscribed Indian participation within the British colonial system, and the extremists from Bengal who advocated the use of violent methods to topple the British colonialists in India.[3]
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