Question

what role did the swarajists play in the Indian freedom struggle?

Answer 1

1) Plantation Workers had their own understanding of Mahatma Gandhi and the notion of Swaraj. For them, freedom meant the right to move freely in and out the confined space in which they were enclosed and it meant retaining a link with the village from which they had come.

2) Under the inland Emigration Act of 1859, plantation workers were not permitted to leave the tea gardens without permission and they were rarely given such permission.

3) They interpreted the term Swaraj in their own ways, as they believed that it to be time when all suffering and all troubles would be over.

4) When tribals chanted Gandhiji’s name and raised slogans demanding ‘Swatantara Bharat’ they were emotionally connected to an all India agitation.

5) Thus, Swaraj played an important part in Indian freedom struggle.