- Mahatma Gandhi’s early life spent at Porbandar.
- Gandhi was thrown out of the train at Pietermaritzburg for being a non-white, completely transformed him.
- Gandhi described passive resistance as the weapon of the weak.
- He developed the philosophy of non-violence and Satyagraha.
- Indigo planters tortured the peasants and imposed illegal levies.
- Ram Kumar Shukul approached Gandhi for a solution.
- The Champaran Agrarian Committee was formed with Gandhi as one of its members.
- Rajendra Prasad joined the Indian National Movement.
- Barristers V.J. Patel and G. K. Parakh made the enquiry.
- Gandhi started the Satyagrah and urged peasants not to pay revenue.
- Poor farmers were exempted from paying revenue.
- Ahmadabad hub of textile mills, outbreak of plague resulted in shortage of labourers.
- Labourers demanded 50% hike in lieu of Plague Bonus.
- Gandhi took the cause of the mill workers, organised Satyagraha, created a tremendous impact and mill owner had to raise wages by 35%
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