1974
DOI: 10.1177/006996677400800105
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Local leaders and the intelligentsia in the Champaran satyagraha (1917): a study in peasant mobilization

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“…In 1917-18, the enquiries into the conditions of the impoverished peasantry under the oppressive indigo planters not only helped to establish Gandhi as a political force on the national scene but also to bind together a network of intellectual leaders in Patna and north Bihar. 24 Lawyers and politically active persons who gathered around Gandhi in 1917-18 now became engaged in relief work after the earthquake. 25 When Prasad met Gandhi for the first time in 1917 he was a young lawyer; in 1934 he had risen to become a leading Congressman and would act as a central figure in the BCRC.…”
Section: The Indian National Congress and Politicised Reliefmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In 1917-18, the enquiries into the conditions of the impoverished peasantry under the oppressive indigo planters not only helped to establish Gandhi as a political force on the national scene but also to bind together a network of intellectual leaders in Patna and north Bihar. 24 Lawyers and politically active persons who gathered around Gandhi in 1917-18 now became engaged in relief work after the earthquake. 25 When Prasad met Gandhi for the first time in 1917 he was a young lawyer; in 1934 he had risen to become a leading Congressman and would act as a central figure in the BCRC.…”
Section: The Indian National Congress and Politicised Reliefmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…46 So were Sant Raut, and Khendar Rai, whose interest earning from money-lending, as said by Jacques Pouchepadass (1974), was whopping `1 lakh per annum. 47 'Shukla, by no standard, was a needy or poor man. Earlier he was in the employ of a landlord in Benaras, but was dismissed on account of malfeasance'.…”
Section: Forgotten Heroes Of Champaranmentioning
confidence: 99%