Who invited Mahatma Gandhi to Champaran to solve the problem of indigo planters?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Raj Kumar Shukla
Raj Kumar Shukla, an indigo cultivator from Champaran in Bihar, met Gandhi at the Lucknow session of the Congress in December 1916 and persuaded him to visit Champaran. There the European planters forced peasants to grow indigo on 3 of every 20 parts of their land (the tinkathia system). Gandhi’s campaign of 1917, the Champaran Satyagraha, was his first satyagraha in India and ended this system.