Navajivan Trust and National Archives of India

  • Thumb Printed: Champaran Indigo Peasants Speak to Gandhi

    M.K. Gandhi arrived in Champaran, Bihar in April 1917, to inquire into the conditions of peasants growing Indigo for European planters. For this, he required his local associates to go out and record what the peasants had to say about their plight. The enthusiasm generated by this novel move resulted in a vast storehouse of

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