Q. Consider the following statements
1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad persuaded Mahatma Gandhi to come to Champaran to investigate the problem of peasants.
2. Acharya J.B. Kripalani was one of Mahatma Gandhi's colleagues in his Champaran investigation.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
(1) 1 only
(2) 2 only
(3) Both 1 and 2
(4) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (2)
Exp. The story of Champaran begins in the early nineteenth century when European planters had engaged the cultivators in agreement that forced them to cultivate indigo on 3/20th of their holdings (known as the. tinkathia system). Towards the end of the nineteenth century, German synthetic dyes forced indigo out of the market and the European planters of Champaran keen to release the cultivators form the obligation of cultivating indigo, tried to turn their necessity to their advantage by securing enhancements in rent and other illegal dues as a price for the release. Resistance had surfaced in 1908 as well, but the exactions of the planters continued till Raj Kumar Shukla, a local man, decided to follow Gandhiji all over the country to persuade him to come to Champaran to investigate the problem. Gandhiji and his colleagues, who now included Brijkishore Rajendra Prasad and other members of the Bihar Intelligentsia., Mahadev Desai and Narhari Parikh, two young man from Gujarat who had thrown in their lot with Gandhiji and J. B. them to make sure that they were giving correct information.
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