why was shukla considered a yeoman
Answers
Shukla considered a yeoman because a yeoman was a class of people in-between the rich landlords and the very poor laborers.
Reasoning
- Raj Kumar Shukla was a share cropper, a poor farmer from the West Champaran district,
- A sharecropper is a farmer who rents a land from the rich landlord and pays a percentage of his produce to him in return.
- Raj Kumar Shukla was unable to pay the British landlord the money they demanded besides the rent.
- So he often visited Rajendra Prasad’s, a lawyer house to seek his assistance in getting justice.
- So he was considered as a yeoman.
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Yeoman is also called a farmer. It means , a class intermediate between the upper class and the lower class (labourers); In america ,a yeoman is a officer who does the office work etc. Yeoman is also a landholder.It is also called a attendant, retainer and guard.
Raj Kumar Shukla is a yeoman because he was very loyal and a poor farmer. He was from Champaran district which is in Bihar. He had come to complain about the injustice of the landlord system in his district. He was a farmer but worked under pressure, not with happiness.