INDIGO - 1

Indigo is about how Mahatma Gandhi

• fought for racial discrimination

• struggled for the underprivileged peasants of Champaran.

• his days of struggle at South Africa

• all the above

Where is Champaran district situated?

• in the south-west of Orissa

• in the foothills of the Himalayas in Bihar

• in the south-east of Bihar

• in the foothill of Uttarakhand

The peasants use to live a wretched life because

• they were under an agreement to grow Indigo.

• they were not allowed to grow crop according to their wish

• They were the sharecroppers with the British planters

• all the above

Champaran movement was a turning point in Gandhi's life because

• it taught him that Champaran was culturally and socially backward

• it proved to him the unfairness and inadequacy of the British laws

• It allowed him to solve problems of Champaran peasants

• It helped him register his first victory against the might of the Britishers

Where did Rajkumar Shukla meet Gandhiji for the first time?

• In December 1916 in Champaran, Bihar

• In December 1917 in Calcutta

• In December 1916 in Lucknow

• In December 1917 in Lucknow

Gandhi agreed to come to Champaran because

• he was impressed by Rajkumar Shukla's tenacity

• he had a lot of information about the atrocities inflicted by the Britishers

• He had decided to start a freedom movement from Chamaparan

• All of the above

Before going to Champaran, Gandhiji visited

• Dr. Rajendra Prasad

• Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

• Kasturba

• None of the above

When did Gandhi experience untouchability?

• When he was not allowed to go to Motihari

• When he wasn't allowed to draw water from Dr. Rajendra Prasad's house

• When he wasn't allowed to stay at Dr. J. B. Kriplani's house

• When he met Raj Kumar Shukla at Calcutta station and wasn't allowed to go ahead

" It was an extraordinary thing in those days." Who is the speaker of these lines and who is he/he speaking to?

• Author Louis Ficher to Gandhi

• Gandhi to Louis Ficher

• Rajkumar Shukla to Gandhi

• Gandhi to Rajkumar Shukla

‘‘It was an extraordinary thing ‘in those days,’’ Gandhi commented, “for a government professor to harbour a man like me”. Who is Gandhiji referring to in his statement

• Professor J.B. Kripalani, of the Arts College in Muzzafarpur

• Dr. Rajendra Prasad

• Professor Malkani, a teacher in a government school

• None of the above