Class – 12th
Subject – English
Day – Thursday
Date – 24/09/2020
Topic –Essay Type Q-Ans. of
‘Indigo’
5. Indigo (Louis Fisher)
1. How did Gandhiji win the battle of
Champaran?
Ans.
‘Indigo’ written by Louis Fisher presented how Gandhiji freed the poor peasant of
Champaran from the clutches of the British planters. The poor peasants had to
produce Indigo 15 percent of the land and surrender it as rent to the landlord.
In 1916, a poor peasant named Rajkumar Shukla met Gandhiji at Calcutta. He was
determined to take Gandhiji to help the poor peasants of Champaran. They went
to Rajendra Prasad’s house where the servant took Gandhiji another peasant.
Gandhiji went Muzzafarpur to collect more information about the condition of
peasants. He told that it was no good to take the cases to court. So the first
thing was to get rid from the fear of British. The British planters demanded
compensation instead of planting Indigo because Germany had developed synthetic
Indigo. But the peasants refused to give. At last, Gandhiji fought for them and
got justice for them. He filled them with courage and self-reliance. Along with
this, Gandhiji worked on the social level also. He arranged of education,
health and hygiene for the peasants. Thus he won the battle of Champaran.