Question

Give 10 points on champaran movement

Answer 1

Answer:

1) The Champaran Satyagraha is considered to be a vital event in the history of India’s freedom struggle

2) first India’s Civil Disobedience movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi to protest against the injustice meted out to tenant farmers in Champaran district of Bihar. 3) Most of the villages were leased out by the zamindars to thikadars of whom the most influential were European Indigo Planters. 4)Champaran used to follow the "panchkathiya" system, whereby five katthas of land in a bigha had to be planted with indigo. 5)The Champaran peasant movement was launched in 1917-18. 6)Its objective was to create awakening among the peasants against the European planters. 7)These planters resorted to illegal and inhuman methods of indigo cultivation at a cost which by no canons of justice could be called an adequate remuneration for the labour done by the peasants. 8)The peasants were obliged to grow indigo and this curtailed their freedom of cultivation. 9) On 10th April, 1914 the sufferings of the Champaran peasants were discussed thoroughly at the annual conference of the Bihar Provincial Congress Committee, which found that the Cham­paran peasants were in a serious situation. 10)Next year, in 1915, the Provincial Congress Committee recom­mended for the constitution of an inquiry committee to take stock of the Champaran peasantry.