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Indigo (Louis Fischer)

CBSE · Class 12 · English

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4 Topics · CBSE Class 12 English

Topics in Indigo (Louis Fischer)

1

Background and Author

  • Louis Fischer was an American author and journalist who wrote for The New York Times and The Saturday Review and taught at Princeton University.
  • The chapter is an excerpt from The Life of Mahatma Gandhi.
  • The chapter focuses on Gandhi’s Champaran work in 1917.
2

Champaran and the Peasant Problem

  • Champaran was in the foothills of the Himalayas near Nepal.
  • The people there were sharecroppers under an old arrangement.
  • Rajkumar Shukla was a sharecropper, poor, illiterate, and resolute.
3

Arrival at Muzzafarpur and the First Steps

  • Gandhi’s train arrived at Muzzafarpur at midnight on 15 April 1917.
  • He had telegraphed J.B. Kripalani, who met him at the station with students.
  • Gandhi stayed for two days at the home of Professor Malkani, a government school teacher.
4

Court Challenge and Civil Disobedience

  • When Gandhi went to Champaran, the British official commissioner tried to bully him into leaving Tirhut.
  • Gandhi went to Motihari, where a large crowd greeted him.
  • He ignored the order to quit Champaran and wrote that he would disobey it.

Key Concepts

Central concept: Champaran Satyagraha and Gandhi's reform of the indigo sharecroppers' struggle

Rajkumar ShuklaChamparan peasantsIndigo systemSynthetic indigoGandhi's investigationLaw and civil disobedienceLawyers of BiharLieutenant-Governor and commission

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