How did civil disobedience triumph the first time in modern india?





In the year 1916  Rajkumar Shukla, a peasant from Champaran, went to meet Gandhiji. He requested him to visit his village once. He went to the congress session to complain about the injustice of the landlords system in Bihar After the repeated request of Shukla Gandhiji visited the place. After going there he decided to gather more knowledge about Champaran’s condition. For this he decided to visit Muzzafarpur.  He fixed an appointment with Mr. Kripalani, who stayed in Muzzafarpur. When the news of Gandhi’s arrival spreaded all over, farmers from different place approached him with their problems. Ganhdiji found the most of the arable land of Champaran was under the Britisher’s. Although many peasants had given their share willingly, many were there who wanted to retain their own land. Gandhiji fought for every individual peasant’s right. The terms of share were also erroneous. Germany at that time had developed synthetic indigo. He meddled with many of the British officials to uplift the conditions of the peasant group. He was bullied by the British commissioners He even went to jail for this. After strong rebels, the Britishers started becoming weak. All lawyers and people were behind Gandhiji. Finally the British government acceded to all his request. This became the first triumphant step of the civil disobedience.

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