​Initial Satyagraha in India

Champaran Satyagraha (1917)

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  • Champaran is a district in the state of Bihar where tens of thousands of landless serfs, indentured laborers, and poor farmers were forced to grow indigo and other cash crops instead of food crops.
  • The European planters had forced the peasants to grow indigo on 3/20 of the total land area (called tinkathia system).
  • When German synthetic dyes replaced indigo at the end of the 19th century, European planters demanded high rents and illegal dues from the peasants in order to maximize their profits before the peasants could switch to other crops.
  • At the Lucknow session of ....
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