INDIGO
By Louis Fischer
Book :- The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
, ∆ LOUIS FISHER MET GANDHI
IN 1942 IN ASHRAM SEVAGRAM ,CENTRAL INDIA
● GANDHI told HOW HE DECIDED TO URGE THE BRITISH DEPARTURE IN 1917
∆ Convention of the Indian National Congress
● IN DECEMBER 1916 of GANDHI annual convention of the
● Indian National Congress party in Lucknow.
● Attended by 2301 delegates
● Peasant came to Gandhi ji Poor I am Rajkumar Shukla from champaran
● Please come to my distract Gandhi didn't knew this place
∆ Rajkumar Shukla
● Champaran peasants were sharecropper Rajkumar was illiterate but resolute.
● Complained about the injustice of the landlord system and someone him talk to Gandhi
● Gandhi told Shukla he will go to Kanpur and then other areas
● Shukla followed
● Then Gandhi return to ashram
● He never left Gandhi
● Fix a date he begged Come and meet me in Calcutta on this date
● After months Shukla was there
● They took a train to Patna Bihar
Visit to house of Rajendra Prasad
● He was out of town but Gandhi was not allowed to drink water from well as some drops of his buckets pollute the entire
● Telegram JB kripalani friends professor Arts college Muzaffarpur
● In way of champaran,to obtain complete information about the case
● 15 APRIL 1917 KRIPLANI WAS WAITING WITH AMNY STUDENT
● GANDHI STAYED AT MALKANI HOUSE FOR 2 DAYS
● EXTRAORDINARY THING IN THISE DAYS INDIAN WERE AFRAID TO SHOW SYMPATHY FOR ADVOCATES OF HOME RULE
● News of Gandhi arrival spread,Chanparan sharecropper came to see him
Muzafarpur lawyers
● called Gandhi to brief him they represent farmer in court
● Report size of high fees
● Gandhi chided the lawyers for collecting big fees ।
● We will not go to court FIRST WE NEED FREEDOM FROM FEAR
Indigo plantation contract
● IN CHAMPARAN ARABLE LAND owned by English men worked by Indian tenants.
● Commercial crop Indigo Landlord made planters to plant indigo in 15 percent land and
● give up as rent by a long term contract
SYNTHETIC INDIGO
● LANDLORD LEARNED SYNTHETIC INDIGO WAS
● MADE IN GERMANY THEN SHARECROPPER HAD TO BE RELEASED FROM AGREEMENT
● But LANDLORD TOOK COMPENSATION FOR RELEASING
● MAMY FARMER WILLINGLY OTHERS WERE FORCED
● INFORMATION ABOUT SYNTHESIS INDIGO REACHED FARMERS they asked their money back
● GANDHI CAME AT THIS TIME
By Louis Fischer
Book :- The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
, ∆ LOUIS FISHER MET GANDHI
IN 1942 IN ASHRAM SEVAGRAM ,CENTRAL INDIA
● GANDHI told HOW HE DECIDED TO URGE THE BRITISH DEPARTURE IN 1917
∆ Convention of the Indian National Congress
● IN DECEMBER 1916 of GANDHI annual convention of the
● Indian National Congress party in Lucknow.
● Attended by 2301 delegates
● Peasant came to Gandhi ji Poor I am Rajkumar Shukla from champaran
● Please come to my distract Gandhi didn't knew this place
∆ Rajkumar Shukla
● Champaran peasants were sharecropper Rajkumar was illiterate but resolute.
● Complained about the injustice of the landlord system and someone him talk to Gandhi
● Gandhi told Shukla he will go to Kanpur and then other areas
● Shukla followed
● Then Gandhi return to ashram
● He never left Gandhi
● Fix a date he begged Come and meet me in Calcutta on this date
● After months Shukla was there
● They took a train to Patna Bihar
Visit to house of Rajendra Prasad
● He was out of town but Gandhi was not allowed to drink water from well as some drops of his buckets pollute the entire
● Telegram JB kripalani friends professor Arts college Muzaffarpur
● In way of champaran,to obtain complete information about the case
● 15 APRIL 1917 KRIPLANI WAS WAITING WITH AMNY STUDENT
● GANDHI STAYED AT MALKANI HOUSE FOR 2 DAYS
● EXTRAORDINARY THING IN THISE DAYS INDIAN WERE AFRAID TO SHOW SYMPATHY FOR ADVOCATES OF HOME RULE
● News of Gandhi arrival spread,Chanparan sharecropper came to see him
Muzafarpur lawyers
● called Gandhi to brief him they represent farmer in court
● Report size of high fees
● Gandhi chided the lawyers for collecting big fees ।
● We will not go to court FIRST WE NEED FREEDOM FROM FEAR
Indigo plantation contract
● IN CHAMPARAN ARABLE LAND owned by English men worked by Indian tenants.
● Commercial crop Indigo Landlord made planters to plant indigo in 15 percent land and
● give up as rent by a long term contract
SYNTHETIC INDIGO
● LANDLORD LEARNED SYNTHETIC INDIGO WAS
● MADE IN GERMANY THEN SHARECROPPER HAD TO BE RELEASED FROM AGREEMENT
● But LANDLORD TOOK COMPENSATION FOR RELEASING
● MAMY FARMER WILLINGLY OTHERS WERE FORCED
● INFORMATION ABOUT SYNTHESIS INDIGO REACHED FARMERS they asked their money back
● GANDHI CAME AT THIS TIME
