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Question
The British plant owners in Bihar were pressing the local farmers to grow only ______.
Options
Indigo
Tea
Coffee
Sugarcane
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Solution
The British plant owners in Bihar were pressing the local farmers to grow only Indigo.
Explanation:
In 1917, he took up the issues of the farmers in Chaparanya in Bihar. The British plant owners there were pressing local farmers to cultivate only indigo. Not only that, they used to buy indigo from them at very low rates. Gandhiji decided to protest against this exploitation and to relieve the farmers from their misery by doing Satyagraha. Gandhiji was successful in his efforts and the British government banned compulsion of cultivating indigo.
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