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  2. Raj Kumar Shukla - Wikipedia

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    Raj Kumar Shukla (23 August 1875 – 20 May 1929) was the person who convinced Mahatma Gandhi to visit Champaran which later led to the Champaran Satyagraha. [1] Shukla at the time paid well to work under Hafiz Din Mohammad and was sent to meet Gandhi.

  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. 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 .

  5. British Raj - Wikipedia

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    Gandhi made his political debut in India in 1917 in Champaran district in Bihar, near the Nepal border, where he was invited by a group of disgruntled tenant farmers who, for many years, had been forced into planting indigo (for dyes) on a portion of their land and then selling it at below-market prices to the British planters who had leased ...

  6. Charles Freer Andrews - Wikipedia

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    The bust of C.F. Andrews over his grave, in Lower Circular Road Christian Cemetery – Kolkata (earlier Calcutta) Andrews had been involved in the Christian Social Union since university, and was interested in exploring the relationship between a commitment to the Gospel and a commitment to justice, through which he was attracted to struggles for justice throughout the British Empire ...

  7. Mahatma Gandhi - Wikipedia

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    In April 1918, during the latter part of World War I, the Viceroy invited Gandhi to a War Conference in Delhi. [86] Gandhi agreed to support the war effort. [37] [87] In contrast to the Zulu War of 1906 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, when he recruited volunteers for the Ambulance Corps, this time Gandhi attempted to recruit combatants ...

  8. 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.

  9. List of fasts undertaken by Mahatma Gandhi - Wikipedia

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    Gandhi began an indefinite fast of atonement. [5] She confessed a day later. Gandhi ended the fast. 3 1914 (2 May – 16 May) [6] 14 days Phoenix, South Africa Second penitential fast [3] 4 1918 (15–18 March) 3 days Ahmedabad: Striking mill workers in Ahmedabad were dejected and losing hope of getting their needed raise. Gandhi announced an ...