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SSC CHSL 2021 PYQ — Question 28

SSC CHSL - 12 April 2021 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q28

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Champaran Satyagraha was launched in which of the following years?

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Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is option 1 i.e. 1917.

  • The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was the first Satyagraha movement led by Gandhi in India.
  • Gandhi entered active politics with the Champaran campaign to redress grievances of the cultivators oppressed by Indigo planters of Bihar (April 1917).
  • It was a farmer's uprising that took place in Champaran district of Bihar in the Indian subcontinent, during the British colonial period.
  • The farmers were protesting against having to grow indigo with barely any payment for it.