Write short notes on kheda Satyagraha
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The Kheda Satyagraha of 1918, in the Kheda district of Gujarat, India during the period of the British Raj, was a Satyagraha movement organized by Mohandas Gandhi. It was a major revolt in the Indian independence movement. It was the third Satyagraha movement after Champaran Satyagraha and Ahmedabad mill strike. Gandhi organised this movement to support peasants of the Kheda district. People of Kheda were unable to pay the high taxes levied by the British due to crop failure and a plague epidemic.
The Kheda Movement also identified as Kheda rural conflict and the no-tax provincial struggle was a great exertion by the peasants. This attempt was commenced as a Satyagraha movement in Kheda District, in March 1919 Gujrat by Gandhiji, Sardar Patel, and other leaders. The Kheda peasant effort is also recognized as a no-tax peasant conflict. The farmers underwent from the situation of harvest failure and epidemic in that region. Therefore under the guidance of Mahatma Gandhi, they continued a Satyagraha to oppose this unfair taxation policy of the British