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Why do you think the servants thought Gandhi to be another peasant?

The servants knew Shukla as a poor peasant who pestered their master to help the indigo sharecroppers. Since Gandhi accompanied him, they thought that Gandhi was also another peasant.


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1

Strike out what is not true in the following.

Rajkumar Shukla was


(i) poor.


(ii) physically strong.


(iii) illiterate.

 2

Why is Rajkumar Shukla described as being ‘resolute’?

 1

List the places that Gandhi visited between his first meeting with Shukla and his arrival at Champaran.

 2

What did the peasants pay the British landlords as rent? What did the British now want instead and why? What would be the impact of synthetic indigo on the prices of natural indigo?