Prelims 2018 · Q69
Which one of the following is a very significant aspect of the Champaran Satyagraha?
- (a)Active all-India participation of lawyers, students and women in the National Movement
- (b)Active involvement of Dalit and Tribal communities of India in the National Movement
- (c)Joining of peasant unrest to India's National Movement
- (d)Drastic decrease in the cultivation of plantation crops and commercial crops
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UPSC's answer: (c)
NCERT answers it: Class 12 Themes in Indian History, Part III, Theme 11 (Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond); Class 12 Social Change and Development in India, Ch 8 (Social Movements).
How to solve it with NCERT: Class 12 Themes in Indian History, Part III, Theme 11: a Champaran peasant told Gandhi about the indigo planters' abuses, and Gandhi spent 1917 there. Class 12 Social Change and Development, ch 8, adds that under Gandhi such peasant struggles became linked to the independence movement. Answer (c).
Hindi version: UPSC's official question paper (2018), question 69 ↗