Question

what were the indian sharecroppers obliged to do accordance with an agreement with the britisb landlords od champaran? on what condition did the lanlords agree to free them of the obligation​

Answer 1

The sharecroppers had to give a 15% of their compensation to the British Landlords.

• The question has been asked from the story Indigo.
• The cultivable area where the Indians worked, was majorly split into considerable estates maintained by Britishers.
• The primary commercial crop was the Indigo and the local landlords had explored how synthetically it was produced by the country of Germany.
• The prospective croppers were consequently forced to plant the crop on fifteen percent of their area and surrender as a rental, the entire crop collection.
• Unanimously opposing the deal, sharecroppers employed lawyers, and the landlords employed goons to fight them. But when knowledge of synthetic indigo reached the peasants who had accepted the contract, they demanded their money back.
• However, after intervention of Gandhiji and the Non - Cooperation movement, the peasants were adequately compensated in parts.