Gandhi’s Struggle in India

  • Gandhi returned to India, in January 1915. He spent the year travelling around the country, seeing things for himself and in organizing his ashram in Ahmedabad. The next year as well, he continued to maintain his distance from political affairs, including the Home Rule Movement.
  • During the course of 1917 and early 1918, he was involved in three significant struggles — Champaran in Bihar, Ahmedabad and in Kheda Gujarat.
  • In Champaran, European planters had involved the cultivators in agreements that forced them to cultivate indigo on 3/20th of their holdings (known as the Tinkathia system). This was called as Ghandhi’s First Civil ....
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