Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist movement

Question:
Peasants from Champaran, Bihar approached Gandhiji to explain to him the harsh treatment of peasants by British indigo planters at this place:
 
(1) Annual Congress held in Pune
(2) Annual Congress held in Bombay 
(3) Annual Congress held in Lucknow
(4) Annual Congress held in Lahore
Options:

1

2

3

4

Correct Answer:

3

Explanation:

In the last month of that year, Gandhiji was presented with an opportunity to put his precepts into practice. At the annual Congress, held in Lucknow in December 1916, he was approached by a peasant from Champaran in Bihar, who told him about the harsh treatment of peasants by British indigo planters.