What role did Sir Gait play in settling the exploitation incident?
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Explanation:
Sir Edward Gait who passed the Indian Civil Service and was appointed as the administrator, soon was appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of the Bihar and Orissa Province in the Bengal Presidency of British India. Indigo movement was started by Gandhiji to protect the sharecroppers from the ill-treatment of the landlords.
It is here that the civil disobedience movement which was started by Gandhiji had won for the first time the battle for the sharecroppers who had been harassed by the landlords.
It was Sir Edward Gait, who was the Lieutenant Governor at that time, on meeting Gandhiji regarding the indigo case, appointed an 'official commission of inquiry' into the indigo sharecropper’s situation. The commissions consisted of landlords, government officials, and Gandhiji as the 'sole representative' of the peasants.
Gandhiji remained in Champaran for a period of seven months and later he had to make some more trips and finally with the battle for the croppers against the landlords and got 25 percent of their money back. So, Sir Edward Gait helped Gandhiji to fight for justice.