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Step 1/5 1. What is the Champaran movement? The Champaran movement was a civil disobedience movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1917 against the British colonial government's forced indigo cultivation in Champaran district of Bihar, India. The movement aimed to improve the living conditions of the farmers who were forced to grow indigo and were exploited by the British landlords. Step 2/5 2. Who was Mahatma Gandhi? Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian independence activist and a political leader who played a significant role in India's struggle for independence from British colonial rule. He was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Gujarat, India. Gandhi is known for his philosophy of non-violent resistance, which he called Satyagraha. He led several movements, including the Champaran movement, the Salt Satyagraha, and the Quit India movement. Step 3/5 3. How did the Champaran movement start? The Champaran movement started when Mahatma Gandhi was invited by a local farmer, Rajkumar Shukla, to visit Champaran and see the plight of the farmers who were forced to grow indigo. Gandhi arrived in Champaran in April 1917 and started organizing the farmers to resist the British landlords' exploitation. He also started a campaign of civil disobedience, urging the farmers to refuse to pay the illegal taxes imposed on them.

The annual journal of the Indian History Congress, entitled The Proceedings of the Indian History Congress carries research papers selected out of papers presented at its annual sessions on all aspects and periods of Indian History from pre-history to contemporary times as well as the history of countries other than India. The addresses of the General President and the Presidents of the six sections generally take up broad issues of interpretation and historical debate. The journal has constantly taken the view that ‘India’ for its purpose is the country with its Pre-Partition boundaries, while treats Contemporary History as the history of Indian Union after 1947. The papers included in the Proceedings can be held to represent fairly well the current trends of historical research in India. Thus there has been a growth of papers on women’s history, environmental and regional history. This journal has appeared annually since 1935 except for five different years when the annual sessions of the Indian History Congress could not be held. The Indian History Congress is the major national organisation of Indian historians, and has occupied this position since its founding session under the name of Modern History Congress, held at Poona in 1935. In his address the organisation's first President, Professor Shafaat Ahmad Khan called upon Indian historians to study all aspects of history, rather than only political history and to emphasize the integrative factors in the past. Its nam...

• • • • Gandhi's Champaran Mission : Its Context and Implications Gandhi's Champaran Mission : Its Context and Implications - By Ranjit Chaudhuri* When GANDHI WAS in Santiniketan after returning from South Africa in 1915, at the enquiry of C.F. Andrews about whether there was any possibility for him to start satyagraha in India, Gandhi replied that such a possibility would not arise for another five years. Little did he think at that time that his first encounter with the British authorities in India would come within two years in Champaran in Bihar. The situation in Champaran was not a creation of Gandhi but his mission there initiated a process that shaped the destiny of the nation and the destiny of his own. The encounter came in the form of passive resistance. Passive resistance of Gandhi came out of his concept of authority. To him, force was the basis of the state authority. The authority based on force could not have moral sanction. In this matter the positions of Thoreau and Gandhi were identical. Thoreau said: "The authority of Government... is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed." 1 Both Thoreau and Gandhi believed in the moral authority which stood above the legal authority. The man-made laws were not necessarily binding on the people. Gandhi said: "So long as the superstition that man should obey unjust laws exists, so long will their slavery exist." 2 Thoreau wrote: "Unjust laws exist: shall we be con...

• • • • Gandhi's Champaran Mission : Its Context and Implications Gandhi's Champaran Mission : Its Context and Implications - By Ranjit Chaudhuri* When GANDHI WAS in Santiniketan after returning from South Africa in 1915, at the enquiry of C.F. Andrews about whether there was any possibility for him to start satyagraha in India, Gandhi replied that such a possibility would not arise for another five years. Little did he think at that time that his first encounter with the British authorities in India would come within two years in Champaran in Bihar. The situation in Champaran was not a creation of Gandhi but his mission there initiated a process that shaped the destiny of the nation and the destiny of his own. The encounter came in the form of passive resistance. Passive resistance of Gandhi came out of his concept of authority. To him, force was the basis of the state authority. The authority based on force could not have moral sanction. In this matter the positions of Thoreau and Gandhi were identical. Thoreau said: "The authority of Government... is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed." 1 Both Thoreau and Gandhi believed in the moral authority which stood above the legal authority. The man-made laws were not necessarily binding on the people. Gandhi said: "So long as the superstition that man should obey unjust laws exists, so long will their slavery exist." 2 Thoreau wrote: "Unjust laws exist: shall we be con...

The annual journal of the Indian History Congress, entitled The Proceedings of the Indian History Congress carries research papers selected out of papers presented at its annual sessions on all aspects and periods of Indian History from pre-history to contemporary times as well as the history of countries other than India. The addresses of the General President and the Presidents of the six sections generally take up broad issues of interpretation and historical debate. The journal has constantly taken the view that ‘India’ for its purpose is the country with its Pre-Partition boundaries, while treats Contemporary History as the history of Indian Union after 1947. The papers included in the Proceedings can be held to represent fairly well the current trends of historical research in India. Thus there has been a growth of papers on women’s history, environmental and regional history. This journal has appeared annually since 1935 except for five different years when the annual sessions of the Indian History Congress could not be held. The Indian History Congress is the major national organisation of Indian historians, and has occupied this position since its founding session under the name of Modern History Congress, held at Poona in 1935. In his address the organisation's first President, Professor Shafaat Ahmad Khan called upon Indian historians to study all aspects of history, rather than only political history and to emphasize the integrative factors in the past. Its nam...

Step 1/5 1. What is the Champaran movement? The Champaran movement was a civil disobedience movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1917 against the British colonial government's forced indigo cultivation in Champaran district of Bihar, India. The movement aimed to improve the living conditions of the farmers who were forced to grow indigo and were exploited by the British landlords. Step 2/5 2. Who was Mahatma Gandhi? Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian independence activist and a political leader who played a significant role in India's struggle for independence from British colonial rule. He was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Gujarat, India. Gandhi is known for his philosophy of non-violent resistance, which he called Satyagraha. He led several movements, including the Champaran movement, the Salt Satyagraha, and the Quit India movement. Step 3/5 3. How did the Champaran movement start? The Champaran movement started when Mahatma Gandhi was invited by a local farmer, Rajkumar Shukla, to visit Champaran and see the plight of the farmers who were forced to grow indigo. Gandhi arrived in Champaran in April 1917 and started organizing the farmers to resist the British landlords' exploitation. He also started a campaign of civil disobedience, urging the farmers to refuse to pay the illegal taxes imposed on them.

The annual journal of the Indian History Congress, entitled The Proceedings of the Indian History Congress carries research papers selected out of papers presented at its annual sessions on all aspects and periods of Indian History from pre-history to contemporary times as well as the history of countries other than India. The addresses of the General President and the Presidents of the six sections generally take up broad issues of interpretation and historical debate. The journal has constantly taken the view that ‘India’ for its purpose is the country with its Pre-Partition boundaries, while treats Contemporary History as the history of Indian Union after 1947. The papers included in the Proceedings can be held to represent fairly well the current trends of historical research in India. Thus there has been a growth of papers on women’s history, environmental and regional history. This journal has appeared annually since 1935 except for five different years when the annual sessions of the Indian History Congress could not be held. The Indian History Congress is the major national organisation of Indian historians, and has occupied this position since its founding session under the name of Modern History Congress, held at Poona in 1935. In his address the organisation's first President, Professor Shafaat Ahmad Khan called upon Indian historians to study all aspects of history, rather than only political history and to emphasize the integrative factors in the past. Its nam...

• • • • Gandhi's Champaran Mission : Its Context and Implications Gandhi's Champaran Mission : Its Context and Implications - By Ranjit Chaudhuri* When GANDHI WAS in Santiniketan after returning from South Africa in 1915, at the enquiry of C.F. Andrews about whether there was any possibility for him to start satyagraha in India, Gandhi replied that such a possibility would not arise for another five years. Little did he think at that time that his first encounter with the British authorities in India would come within two years in Champaran in Bihar. The situation in Champaran was not a creation of Gandhi but his mission there initiated a process that shaped the destiny of the nation and the destiny of his own. The encounter came in the form of passive resistance. Passive resistance of Gandhi came out of his concept of authority. To him, force was the basis of the state authority. The authority based on force could not have moral sanction. In this matter the positions of Thoreau and Gandhi were identical. Thoreau said: "The authority of Government... is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed." 1 Both Thoreau and Gandhi believed in the moral authority which stood above the legal authority. The man-made laws were not necessarily binding on the people. Gandhi said: "So long as the superstition that man should obey unjust laws exists, so long will their slavery exist." 2 Thoreau wrote: "Unjust laws exist: shall we be con...

Step 1/5 1. What is the Champaran movement? The Champaran movement was a civil disobedience movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1917 against the British colonial government's forced indigo cultivation in Champaran district of Bihar, India. The movement aimed to improve the living conditions of the farmers who were forced to grow indigo and were exploited by the British landlords. Step 2/5 2. Who was Mahatma Gandhi? Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian independence activist and a political leader who played a significant role in India's struggle for independence from British colonial rule. He was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Gujarat, India. Gandhi is known for his philosophy of non-violent resistance, which he called Satyagraha. He led several movements, including the Champaran movement, the Salt Satyagraha, and the Quit India movement. Step 3/5 3. How did the Champaran movement start? The Champaran movement started when Mahatma Gandhi was invited by a local farmer, Rajkumar Shukla, to visit Champaran and see the plight of the farmers who were forced to grow indigo. Gandhi arrived in Champaran in April 1917 and started organizing the farmers to resist the British landlords' exploitation. He also started a campaign of civil disobedience, urging the farmers to refuse to pay the illegal taxes imposed on them.