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morning found the town of Motihari black with peasant. They do not know Gandhi's record at South Africa. They had heard that Mahatma which wanted to help them is in trouble with the authorities​

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Answered by ashishkjha123
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Answered by aakash8458
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About the author

Louis Fischer (1896-1970) was born in Philadelphia.

He served as a volunteer in the British Army between

1918 and 1920. Fischer made a career as a journalist

and wrote for The New York Times, The Saturday Review

and for European and Asian publications. He was also

a member of the faculty at Princeton University. The

following is an excerpt from his book- The Life of Mahatma

Gandhi. The book has been reviewed as one of the best

books ever written on Gandhi by Times Educational

Supplement.

Notice these expressions in the text.

Infer their meaning from the context.

y urge the departure y harbour a man like me

y conflict of duties y seek a prop

When I first visited Gandhi in 1942 at his ashram in

Sevagram, in central India, he said, “I will tell you how it

happened that I decided to urge the departure of the British.

It was in 1917.”

He had gone to the December 1916 annual convention

of the Indian National Congress party in Lucknow. There

were 2,301 delegates and many visitors. During the

proceedings, Gandhi recounted, “a peasant came up to me

looking like any other peasant in India, poor and emaciated,

and said, ‘I am Rajkumar Shukla. I am from Champaran,

and I want you to come to my district’!’’ Gandhi had never

heard of the place. It was in the foothills of the towering

Himalayas, near the kingdom of Nepal.

Under an ancient arrangement, the Champaran

peasants were sharecroppers. Rajkumar Shukla was one

of them. He was illiterate but resolute. He had come to the

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Congress session to complain about the injustice of the

landlord system in Bihar, and somebody had probably said,

“Speak to Gandhi.”

Gandhi told Shukla he had an appointment in

Cawnpore and was also committed to go to other parts of

India. Shukla accompanied him everywhere. Then Gandhi

returned to his ashram near Ahmedabad. Shukla followed

him to the ashram. For weeks he never left Gandhi’s side.

“Fix a date,” he begged.

Impressed by the sharecropper’s tenacity and story

Gandhi said, ‘‘I have to be in Calcutta on such-and-such a

date. Come and meet me and take me from there.”

Months passed. Shukla was

sitting on his haunches at the

appointed spot in Calcutta when

Gandhi arrived; he waited till Gandhi

was free. Then the two of them

boarded a train for the city of Patna

in Bihar. There Shukla led him to

the house of a lawyer named

Rajendra Prasad who later became

President of the Congress party and

of India. Rajendra Prasad was out

of town, but the servants knew

Shukla as a poor yeoman who

pestered their master to help the

indigo sharecroppers. So they let

him stay on the grounds with his

companion, Gandhi, whom they took

to be another peasant. But Gandhi

was not permitted to draw water

from the well lest some drops from his bucket pollute the entire

source; how did they know that he was not an untouchable?

Gandhi decided to go first to Muzzafarpur, which was

en route to Champaran, to obtain more complete

information about conditions than Shukla was capable of

imparting. He accordingly sent a telegram to Professor

J.B. Kripalani, of the Arts College in Muzzafarpur, whom

he had seen at Tagore’s Shantiniketan school. The train

1. Strike out what is not true in 1

the following.

a. Rajkumar Shukla was

(i) a sharecropper.

(ii) a politician.

(iii) delegate.

(iv) a landlord.

b. Rajkumar Shukla was

(i) poor.

(ii) physically strong.

(iii) illiterate.

2. Why is Rajkumar Shukla 2

described as being ‘resolute’?

3. Why do you think the 3

servants thought Gandhi to be

another peasant?

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