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Describe in very detail of movement of peasants, worker, tribals |
| Answer» Peasants: For peasants movement we may give example of Champaran struggle, also , Peasants movement in Kheda district of Gujarat where peasnst demanded reduction in revenue.In Champran, for instance, the peasants in the indigo plantations were oppressed by the European planters and were forced to grow indigo and sell it at the price fixed by the planters.\xa0The British also imposed taxes on them, the farmers sold indigo to the Eurpeans at very low prices bringing them to the state of extreme poverty\xa0Mahatma Gandhi when visited Chamapran was moved by the plight of indigo planters and launched his first experiment, he asked peasnts not to produce indigo.\xa0In Kheda district the crop had failed, Gnadhi thus supported the casue of paesnst and asked them not to pay revenue.Thereafter again. the peasants took part in the non cooperation movement for the pupose of getting their demands of reduction of revenue fulfilled..The civil disobedience marked the participation Peasants both rich and poor peasantry.. Rich peasants the Patidars of Gujarat and the Jats of Uttar Pradesh – were active in the movement. These rich peasants became enthusiastic supporters of the Civil Disobedience Movement, organising their communities.Plantation workers took part in the agitation hoping they would get the right to move freely in and outside the plantations and get land in their own villages. | |