Question

The plantation workers in Assam had their own understanding of mahatma Gandhi and the nation of swaraj . Support the statement.

Answer 1

Workers had their own understanding of Mahatma Gandhi and the notion of swaraj. Forplantation workers in Assam, freedom meant the right to move freely in and out of the confined space in which they were enclosed, and it meant retaining a link with the village from which they had come

Answer 2

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1. For Assamese plantation workers, freedom meant the right to move freely within and out of the confined space they were enclosed in.

2. Swaraj meant maintaining a link to the village they had come from.

3. Under the 1859 Inland Emigration Act plantation workers were not allowed without permission to leave the Tea Gardens.

4. When they learned thousands of workers defied the Non Cooperation campaign, the authorities abandoned the plantations and went home.

5. They believed that gandhi raj was coming, and that everyone in their own village would be given land.