Question

How was The champaran episode a turning point in Gandhiji's life?

Answer 1

One Raj Kumar Shukla from Champaran, on the annual meeting of Indian National Congress, apprised Gandhiji about the appalling condition of share-croppers there. Gandhiji reached there and came to know that the large estates were owned by the Englishmen and the Indians worked as their tenant farmers and they had to pay 15% of their land. After the investigations by Gandhi and the lawyers into the grievances of the farmers, it was decided by the Britishers that 25% of the money would be refunded. The farmers learnt that they had their rights and they became courageous. Within a few years the landlords relinquished their claims over the estates and the farmers became the owners.

Gandhi saw their social, economic and cultural backwardness of the area. He appointed volunteers to teach the villagers. Kasturba Gandhi taught the Ashram rules and personal cleanliness and community sanitation. He got a doctor to volunteer his services for six months to improve the health conditions of the people.

They realised the value of self-reliance. The lawyers helped the peasants in their cases. Women gave Gandhi whole hearted support and the countrymen embarked in the national freedom movement. It became a turning point in the career of Gandhiji.

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Answer 2

Gandhi went to Champaran in 1917 and it was then that he decided to insist on the British leaving India. It was there that not only did he raise his voice against the injustice of the landlord system in Bihar but also freed them from fear.   First he defied the secretary of-the British landlords' association, who refused to give information to an 'outsider'. Next, he refused to leave Tirhut division in which the Champaran district lay despite being told to do so. He also arranged a gathering of peasants in huge numbers which was the beginning of their freedom from fear of the British. The official felt powerless without Gandhi's cooperation, This was his proof that the power-of the Britishers could be challenged by Indians.   The peasants realized that they had rights and this was their first lesson in courag-e. Soon within a Jew years, the British planters returned the estates to the peasants. This was the end of indigo sharecropping. Through the Champaran incident, Gandhi declared for the first time that the British could not order Indians in their own country. It did not begin as an act of-disobedience though. He was through personal example, able to motivate the masses into civil disobedience and teach them to be self-reliant