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  2. Champaran Satyagraha - Wikipedia

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    The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was the first satyagraha movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in British India and is considered a historically important rebellion in the Indian independence movement. It was a farmer's uprising that took place in Champaran district of Bihar in the Indian subcontinent , during the British colonial period .

  3. Batak Mian - Wikipedia

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    Mahatma Gandhi was invited to dinner by the manager of an indigo plant, Erwin. Erwin insisted to his cook, Batak Mian, to add poison to a glass of milk, and to serve to Gandhi. [2] He went to serve, but revealed the plot to Rajendra Prasad. [3] [4] After escaping from the attempt, Mahatma Gandhi continued his protest at Champaran. The estate ...

  4. Brajkishore Prasad - Wikipedia

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    He met with Mahatma Gandhi in 1915 and was inspired. He decided to get involved full-time in the freedom struggle and gave up his legal practice. He was instrumental in Gandhi taking up the Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha, in which Gandhi handpicked Rajendra Prasad and Anugrah Narayan Sinha [3] along with him to successfully lead the movement.

  5. Indian independence movement - Wikipedia

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    (Sitting L to R) Rajendra Prasad and Anugrah Narayan Sinha during Mahatma Gandhi's 1917 Champaran Satyagraha. Gandhi had been a leader of the Indian nationalist movement in South Africa. He had also been a vocal opponent of basic discrimination and abusive labour treatment as well as suppressive police control such as the Rowlatt Acts. During ...

  6. Indian National Congress - Wikipedia

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    Rahul Gandhi resigned from his post after the 2019 election, due to the party's dismal electoral performance. [203] The party only won 52 seats, eight more than the previous election. Its vote percentage once again fell below 20 per cent. Following Gandhi's resignation, party leaders began deliberations for a suitable candidate to replace him.

  7. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag.

  8. Champaran District - Wikipedia

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    Champaran District was a district of British India. In 1917, Mohandas Gandhi did his first Satyagraha movement in India at this district against European landowners and British government. [ 1 ]

  9. Amanda Seyfried is shocked by 'soap opera' twist in her ... - AOL

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    Amanda Seyfried has starred in her fair share of dramatic roles, but had no idea that her distant relative's life was like something out of a soap opera. While appearing on the PBS series "Finding ...