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Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 12 · English

What Indigo (Louis Fischer) covers in Madhya Pradesh Board Class 12 English: 4 topics, for the 2026-27 session.

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4 Topics · Madhya Pradesh Board Class 12 English · 2026-27

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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Key topics in Indigo (Louis Fischer) include Background and Author, Champaran and the Peasant Problem, Arrival at Muzzafarpur and the First Steps, Court Challenge and Civil Disobedience. Study these first, then practise questions on each for the Madhya Pradesh Board Class 12 board exam.
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