Indigo (Louis Fischer)

Rajkumar Shukla was a sharecropper, was poor, and was illiterate. The statement that is not true is (iv) a landlord.

The text says Rajkumar Shukla was poor and illiterate, and also describes him as emaciated. So the statement that is not true is (ii) physically strong.

Rajkumar Shukla is described as resolute because he was firm and determined to get Gandhi to come to Champaran. Even when Gandhi said he was busy, Shukla kept following him everywhere, waited for weeks, and never gave up until Gandhi fixed a date to meet him.

The servants thought Gandhi was another peasant because he was accompanied by Rajkumar Shukla, whom they knew as a poor yeoman, and Gandhi looked like a simple country man too. In addition, Gandhi’s appearance and his staying with Shukla made him seem like one of the ordinary peasants rather than an important leader.

After meeting Shukla, Gandhi first went to the Lucknow Congress session. He told Shukla he had an appointment in Cawnpore and then returned to his ashram near Ahmedabad. Later he asked Shukla to meet him in Calcutta, from where they boarded a train to Patna. Gandhi then went to Muzzafarpur and finally to Motihari in Champaran.