Question
UPSC Prelims 2018 Question:
Which one of the following is a very significant aspect of the Champaran Satyagraha?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Option 3: Joining of peasant unrest to India's National Movement
Detailed Solution
Explanation:
- The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was the first Satyagraha movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in India. It was a farmer's uprising that took place in Champaran district of Bihar, India, during the British colonial period. The farmers were protesting against having to grow indigo with barely any payment for it.
- The Champaran Satyagraha triggered a series of movements; the Ahmedabad workers’ strike against indigenous mill owners, the Kheda Satyagraha against revenue enhancement, the all-India April Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act and finally the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movement. But the Champaran Satyagraha would always remain as the starting point, the yoking, for the first time, of the peasant unrest to the national movement.
Therefore, option (3) is the correct answer.
Subject: History | The Gandhian Phase
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