Modern India

Champaran Satyagraha

English

Period1917, Bihar Exam importanceHigh

Gandhi’s first Satyagraha campaign in India (1917), launched on behalf of indigo cultivators in Champaran, Bihar, who were forced under the tinkathia system to grow indigo on a portion of their land — a successful early demonstration of Gandhi’s methods on Indian soil.

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