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    This document provides background on Louis Fischer, a journalist who wrote about Mahatma Gandhi. It then summarizes a chapter from Fischer's book about Gandhi's involvement helping poor peasant farmers in Champaran in 1916. The peasants were forced to grow indigo and pay high rents to their British landlords. Gandhi helped the peasants fight for justice and fair treatment after one of the sharecroppers asked for his assistance. After his arrival, Gandhi strategized with local lawyers and was able to get the charges reduced for the peasants after a yearlong struggle.

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    This document provides background on Louis Fischer, a journalist who wrote about Mahatma Gandhi. It then summarizes a chapter from Fischer's book about Gandhi's involvement helping poor peasant farmers in Champaran in 1916. The peasants were forced to grow indigo and pay high rents to their British landlords. Gandhi helped the peasants fight for justice and fair treatment after one of the sharecroppers asked for his assistance. After his arrival, Gandhi strategized with local lawyers and was able to get the charges reduced for the peasants after a yearlong struggle.

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    This document provides background on Louis Fischer, a journalist who wrote about Mahatma Gandhi. It then summarizes a chapter from Fischer's book about Gandhi's involvement helping poor peasant farmers in Champaran in 1916. The peasants were forced to grow indigo and pay high rents to their British landlords. Gandhi helped the peasants fight for justice and fair treatment after one of the sharecroppers asked for his assistance. After his arrival, Gandhi strategized with local lawyers and was able to get the charges reduced for the peasants after a yearlong struggle.

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    INDIGO

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    This document provides background on Louis Fischer, a journalist who wrote about Mahatma Gandhi. It then summarizes a chapter from Fischer's book about Gandhi's involvement helping poor peasant farmers in Champaran in 1916. The peasants were forced to grow indigo and pay high rents to their British landlords. Gandhi helped the peasants fight for justice and fair treatment after one of the sharecroppers asked for his assistance. After his arrival, Gandhi strategized with local lawyers and was able to get the charges reduced for the peasants after a yearlong struggle.

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    INDIGO

    BY
    LOUIS FISCHER
    ABOUT THE
    AUTHOR
    LOUIS FISCHER
    Louis Fischer(1896-1970) was an American
    journalist. He was born in Philadelphia.He
    served as a volunteer in the British army
    between 1989 and 1920.Fisher made a
    career as a journalist and wrote for the New
    York Times,The Saturday review and for
    European and Asian Publications.Among his
    works were a contribution to the ex-
    Communist treatise The God that Failed
    (1949), A Life of Mahatma Gandhi (1950),
    basis for the Academy Award-winning film
    Gandhi (1982).The book has been reviewed
    as one of the best books ever written on
    Gandhi by times educational supplement
    The Life of MAHATMA GANDHI
    This story is set in 1916 where Gandhi steps up to help
    a bunch of poor peasants from Champaran. It gives an
    account of how he struggled to bring them justice and
    equality. Thus, it begins with most of the arable land
    of Champaran that divides into a large estate. The
    owners of the estate are Englishmen and the workers
    are Indian tenants. We learn that the chief commercial
    crop on this land is Indigo. Moreover, we also see that
    the landlords compel all the tenants to plant 15% of

    CHAMPARAN their Indigo and submit the whole harvest in the form

    FARMERS of rent. The tenants are under a long-term agreement


    to do so.
    However, Germany starts developing synthetic
    Indigo. Thus, the British do not require the
    Indigo crop any more. Thus, in order to release
    the poor peasant from their agreement of 15%,
    they start demanding compensation. While
    some of the uneducated peasants agreed on
    this, the other did not agree. Thus, we notice

    INDIGO PLANT that one of the sharecroppers, Raj Kumar


    Shukla arranges for a meeting with Gandhi.
    He meets him for the same issues and insists
    Gandhi to visit the place to end the longstanding
    injustice. Gandhi agrees and boards a train to
    Patna in Bihar. After that, Raj Kumar Shukla
    helps Gandhi visit the house of Rajendra Prasad,
    a lawyer. As Gandhi dresses simply, the servants
    thought of him to be a poor peasant. Thus,
    Gandhi planned before trying to get the peasants
    RAJ KUMAR SHUKLA any justice. It is because the British government
    & are punishing anyone who is keeping national
    RAJENDRA PRASAD leaders or protestors.
    Thus, when Gandhi arrived in the place,
    the news of his arrival and mission
    spread across the town like wildfire. This
    resulted in a lot of lawyers and peasant
    groups pouring in large numbers in his
    support. Consequently, the lawyers did
    accept that the charges are quite high and
    too unreasonable for a poor peasant.
    However, Gandhi was criticizing them for
    collecting huge fees from the sharecroppers. He
    was emphasizing on counselling as this will
    provide the peasants with confidence to fight
    their fear. Thus, he manages to get justice after
    a yearlong fight for the peasants. He has also
    arranged for the education, health, and hygiene
    for the families of the poor peasants. Finally, he
    teaches them a lesson of self-sufficiency and
    self-confidence
    Done by:
    P.Bhaskar Datta

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