Very short Answer type questions
1. Who was Rajkumar Shukla ?
Ans: Rajkumar Shukla was one of the poor sharecropper peasants of Champaran.
2. Why was Rajkumar Shukla resolute?
Ans: Rajkumar Shukla was described as resolute because he did not leave Gandhi side and followed him wherever he went because he wanted Gandhi to visit his destruct.
3. Whom did they meet there?
Ans: They met Rajendra Prasad there.
4. Where did Gandhi decide to go first?
Ans: Gandhi decided to go first to Muzafarpur.
5. Which country had developed synthetic indigo?
Ans: Germany had developed synthetic indigo
6. What was the capital of Champaran?
Ans: Motihari was the capital of Champaran.
7. What was the event in which Rajkumar Shukla met Gandh in Lucknow?
Ans: It was the annual convention of the Indian National Congress it Lucknow in December 1916.
8. Why did Shukla went upto Gandhi ?
Ans: He came up with some serious problems of the peasants o Champaran his village and wanted help from Gandhi to solve them
9. Did Gandhi went at once with Shukla? Why?
Ans: Gandhi had several meetings and appointment at hand. So, hi told Shukla to wait for some months.
10. Where did Gandhiji and Shukla go at first? Ans: At first they went to Patna.
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11. What was Gandhi's purpose in visiting Muzzafarpur ?
Ans: He went there to get the actual picture of the zamindari system in the locality.
12. What was the result of the planer's demand for this compensation.
Ans: Some peasants paid the compensation willingly and others engaged lawyers to fight the case
13. What was the behavior of the secretary of the British landlords association towards Gandhi?
Ans: The secretary declined to give Gandhi any information for being on outsider.
14. What did the local British commissioner do to Gandhi ?
Ans: The local British commissioner attempted to bully Gandhi and told him to leave at once.
15. What happened when Gandhi was served an official notice to quit Champaran ?
Ans: He signed a receipt of the notice, but wrote on it that would disobey the order.
16. How was the crowd controlled in the court episode ?
Ans: The crowd was so big that the British officials were astonished to see the rush. It was only Gandhi who pacified the people and calmed the situation
17. Why did Gandhi chide the lawyers ?
Ans: He chided the lawyers for charging high fees from the poor farmers.
18. What was the period for which Gandhi stayed at Champaran?
Ans: He stayed there for seven months and had later visits too.
19. Why did Gandhi say that the amount of refund not important?
Ans: He said that more than the amount it was important that the British planters surrendered some of their money and their dignity.
20. What was the most precious thing that Gandhi gifted to the peasants ?
Ans: He gave them courage and confidence which could help them to fight for their rights.
21. Did Gandhi know about Champaran before he met Shukla?
Ans : Before met Shukla Gandhi did not know anything about Champaran.
22. What is a sharecropper?
Ans: To have some same sentiments, opinion and interest. The news of Gandhi's arriving Champaran advent and sharecropper from Champaran began arriving on foot and by convergence to see Gandhi.
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23. Did Gandhi give an immediate audience to Shukla?
Ans: Gandhi did not give an immediate audience to Shukla because made some arrangement to go to Cawnpare (Now Kanpur) and then to some other parts of the country.
24. For how long did Shukla have to wait before he was able to speak to Gandhi?
Ans: Shukla met Gandhi, and narrated to Gandhi the injustice meted but by the landlords in Bihar and wanted to help, Gandhi told about his appointments but Shukla stayed with him wherever he went. Shukla wait for several month before he was able to speak to Gandhi.
25. What did the servants of Rajendra Prasad take Gandhi to be?
Ans : The servants of Rajendra Prasad took Gandhiji to be an untouchable and did not allow him to use the well. The two are allowed to stay on the ground.
26. When did Gandhi reach Mazzaffarpur? How was he greated at the station?
Ans: After left Patna, Gandhi decided to first visit Muzzaffarpur.
With a view to greeted Gandhi Sharecropper from Champaran began arriving on foot and by conveyance to see Gandhiji. Muzzaffarpur lawyers called on Gandhi to brief them.
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27. What according to Gandhi was the real relief for the peasants?
Ans: Af Muzzaffarpur, gandhi chided the lawyers for charging high fees from the poor farmers. Gandhi expressed strong disapproval at their collection of huge fees. With the help of Gandhi they get rid of fees and it was the real relife for them.
28. What did Gandhi do when she received on official notice to 'quit' Champaran?
Ans: Gandhiji didn't leave but went ahead to the capital of Champaran to Motihari to where a large number of lawyers accompanied him,
29. Name the persons who come from Bihar to Motihari to help Gandhi.
Ans : Rajkumar Shukla.
30• What was the gist of the conversation between Gandhi ana the lawyers who wishe awyers who wished to return home at the event of Gandi imprisonment?
Ans: The gist of the conversation between Gandhi and the lawyers decleared that if Gandhi was ready to go to prison for the sake of the farmers, their act of returning home would be extremely disgraceful.
31. What were the three medicines with which Gandhi tried to improve the health conditions of Champaran?
Ans : With the help of the three medicines castor oli, quinine and sulphur ointment, Gandhi tried to improve the health conditions of Champaran.
32. What was Gandhi's polities interturned with?
Ans : Gandhi's loyality was not to any abstract ideology; it was to the living human beings. His political pattern was different in the sense that it was always closely linked to the hard reality of life and the day-to-day problems of the millions Indians.
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