https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel Made with big dreams en-us 2020-09-02 15:59:55 UTC 2020-09-02 18:08:51 UTC hello@padlet.com 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715308608 2020-09-02 16:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715308608 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715315830 2020-09-02 16:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715315830 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715321770 Rajkumar Shukla was a poor sharecropper from Champaran who came to visit Gandhi. ]]> 2020-09-02 16:03:47 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715321770 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715329579 He wanted to complain about the injustice of the landlord system in Bihar and request Gandhi to come there. ]]> 2020-09-02 16:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715329579 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715333492 2020-09-02 16:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715333492 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715347167 2020-09-02 16:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715347167 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715355902 Shukla took him to the residence of Rajendra Prasad. The servants working there considered Gandhiji to be an untouchable because of his simple lifestyle. ]]> 2020-09-02 16:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715355902 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715368327 Gandhiji went to Muzzafarpur to obtain more complete information about the conditions of Champaran sharecroppers. ]]> 2020-09-02 16:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715368327 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715381087 And then he sent a telegram to professor J.B Kripalani and stayed at professor Malkani's house for two days. ]]> 2020-09-02 16:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715381087 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715386709 In smaller localities the Indians were afraid to show sympathy for the advocates of home rule. ]]> 2020-09-02 16:19:30 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715386709 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715393764 The news of Gandhiji's arrival and the nature of his mission spread quickly and the sharecroppers gathered in large numbers to see their champion. ]]> 2020-09-02 16:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715393764 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715398686 Gandhiji chided the lawyers for collecting big fee from the sharecroppers. ]]> 2020-09-02 16:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715398686 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715409447 Most of the arable land in Champaran district was divided into large estates owned by Englishmen and worked by Indian tenants. ]]> 2020-09-02 16:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715409447 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715423250 The chief commercial crop was indigo. ]]> 2020-09-02 16:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715423250 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715432677 The landlords compelled all tenants to plant fifteen percent of their holdings with indigo and surrender the entire indigo harvest as rent. ]]> 2020-09-02 16:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715432677 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715442827 When the landlords learned that Germany had developed synthetic indigo, they freed the Indian farmers from the fifteen percent agreement but asked them to pay compensation. ]]> 2020-09-02 16:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715442827 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715452382 Many signed the agreement willingly but some of the sharecroppers resisted and engaged lawyers. And so the landlords hired thugs. ]]> 2020-09-02 16:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715452382 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715617721 When Gandhiji arrived in Champaran, he visited the secretary of the British landlord's association. But they did not give him any information saying that he was an outsider. ]]> 2020-09-02 17:18:30 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715617721 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715631607 Then Gandhiji called on the British official commissioner of Tirhut.But the commissioner asked him to leave. But Gandhiji did not leave and instead went to Motihari and a vast multitude greeted him and he continued with his investigation. ]]> 2020-09-02 17:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715631607 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715642898 A report came that a peasant had been maltreated in a nearby village. So he decided to go there but was stopped by a police superintendent. He got an official notice to quit Champaran immediately but he disobeyed the order. ]]> 2020-09-02 17:24:52 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715642898 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715658875 In consequence, Gandhi received a summons to appear in court the next day. There was a spontaneous demonstration by the peasants and the officials felt powerless without Gandhi's cooperation. As a result the trial was postponed. ]]> 2020-09-02 17:28:32 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715658875 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715670414 Rajendra Prasad, Kishor Babu, Maulana Mazharul Huq and several other prominent lawyers had arrived from Bihar to support Gandhi and decided to go to jail with Gandhi if he was sent to jail. ]]> 2020-09-02 17:31:20 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715670414 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715681665 After several days Gandhi received a letter from the magistrate that the lieutenant Governor of the province had dropped the case. ]]> 2020-09-02 17:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715681665 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715689654 Civil Disobedience had triumphed the first time in modern India. ]]> 2020-09-02 17:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715689654 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715694731 Gandhi and the lawyers continued with their investigation.]]> 2020-09-02 17:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715694731 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715707441 In June, Gandhi was summoned to sir Edward Gait, the lieutenant Governor. He had four protracted interviews with the lieutenant Governor who as a result appointed an official commission of inquiry into the Indigo sharecroppers situation. ]]> 2020-09-02 17:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715707441 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715727631 The official inquiry commission consisted of landlords, government officials and Gandhi as the sole representative of the peasants. ]]> 2020-09-02 17:45:32 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715727631 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715741013 Finally Gandhiji accepted twenty five percent of money offered to the farmers as refund. Within a few years the British planters abandoned their estates, which reverted to the peasants. Indigo sharecropping disappeared. ]]> 2020-09-02 17:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715741013 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715746548 After this Gandhiji worked for the economy and cultural development of the area. ]]> 2020-09-02 17:50:16 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715746548 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715765068 With the help of Mahadev Desai, Narhari Parikh and their wives and Gandhi's wife Kasturbai and son Devadas and several others Gandhi opened schools and taught cleanliness and sanitation. ]]> 2020-09-02 17:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715765068 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715780234 Early in the Champaran action, Charles Freer Andrews, the English pacifist who had become a devoted follower of Gandhiji asked  Gandhi if he could help him with the protest. But Gandhiji refused since he was an Englishman. ]]> 2020-09-02 17:59:15 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715780234 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715788134 In this way Gandhiji taught a lesson of self-reliance to his followers. ]]> 2020-09-02 18:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715788134 12cmeera https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715803155 2020-09-02 18:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/12cmeera/4ybsrlmbdmdorjel/wish/715803155