What different values do you learn from Rajkumar's episode from the chapter "indigo"?

Rajkumar Shukla was a poor and emaciated peasant from Champaran and he wanted Gandhi to come to his district. What we learn from this episode is the assiduity and perseverance that Rajkumar Shukla displays in finally achieving what he came out of his village to accomplish. Gandhi had never heard of this place which was located in the foothills of the towering Himalayas, near the kingdom of Nepal. Under an ancient arrangement, the Champaran peasants were sharecroppers and Rajkumar Shukla was one of them. A poor, illiterate man but extremely resolute, he wanted Gandhi to come and see the deplorable condition of life in Champaran so he accompanied him everywhere until Gandhi gave him a date to take him to his village. Months passes, Shukla continued to sit on his haunches in his appointed spot in Calcutta and when Gandhi arrived, he waited till Gandhi was free. The two of them boarded a train for the city of Patna in Bihar where Shukla led him to the house of a lawyer named Rajendra Prasad. Shukla was a poor yeoman who had pestered the lawyer to help the indigo sharecroppers but Rajendra Prasad was out of town at that time. So, with Gandhi in tow, Shukla commenced the journey towards Muzzafarpur for Gandhi to obtain more information on Champaran. As is evident from the story, it was one man's perseverance and dedication that got Gandhi to change the fate of the poor Champaran villagers.

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