INDIAN HISTORY

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The leader who contacted Mahatma Gandhi in connection with the Peasant Unrest in Bihar at the Lucknow Congress of 1916 was
A
Ras Bihari Bose
B
Raj Kumar Shukla
C
Pt. Nehru
D
Rajendra Prasad
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Raj Kumar Shukla. Raj Kumar Shukla, a leader of the Champaran ryots managed to bring Gandhiji to Champaran. He met Gandhiji in the Lucknow session of Congress in December 1916 and placed the grievances in December 1916 and placed the grievances of the indigo growers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rajkumar Shukla was a poor peasant from Champaran district in Bihar. He had come to Lucknow, where a Congress session was being held, to complain about the injustice of the landlord system in Bihar. Was this answer helpful?

Detailed explanation-3: -Mahatma Gandhi was invited to Champaran at the behest of Raj Kumar Shukla and Sant Raut. His arrival at Champaran would begin a satyagraha movement. The Champarana Satyagraha of 1917 was an historically important event in the Indian freedom struggle.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shukla himself was a middle-class farmer who had undertaken cultivation of indigo. However, he also had a good hold on the Kaithi script. In Champaran, the British had imposed a system called tinkathia. Under this system, the tenant farmers were forced to grow indigo (a blue dye) in three kathas of every bigha.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Champaran Satyagraha was a peasants uprising, led by Mahatma Gandhi in the Champaran district of Bihar.

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