Champaran Satyagraha

2 notes tagged Champaran Satyagraha.

• History

  Economic Impact of British Rule in India

  How tariffs, railways and cash crops remade Indian industry and agriculture, why Bengal's indigo system triggered revolt in 1859 and Champaran in 1917, how Ryotwari assessed land, and what Naoroji's drain of wealth theory actually argued.

• History

  Gandhi's Early Satyagrahas: Champaran and Kheda

  Champaran and Kheda were Gandhi's first Indian campaigns, and the war recruitment drive that followed them is the era's most genuinely uncomfortable episode.