Question

Which of the following similarities do you find between Champaran movement and Kheda movement?
A. Both movements were led by Mahatma Gandhi.
B. Both movements took place in the same year.
C. Both movements were associated with peasant problems.
D. Both places were in the same presidency.

• A. A, B
• B. A, C
• C. B, D
• D. B, C

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

A, C

Both the movements dealt with the problems of the peasants in different places. Champaran is in Bihar where peasants were forced to cultivate indigo. Gandhiji did a satyagaraha in 1917 to secure justice for the peasants.

Due to constant famines, the crops had failed in the Kheda district of Gujarat. The British government had compelled the peasants to pay land revenue. The local peasants, therefore, started a no- tax movement in Kheda district in 1918 which was led by Gandhiji.