SSC Selection Post 2024 PYQ — Question 43

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. Champaran movement.

• The Champaran movement is known as the first Satyagraha led by Mahatma Gandhi.
• The Champaran Satyagraha was the first Satyagraha movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in British India in the year 1917 and marked the beginning of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's experiments in India.
• The Champaran Satyagraha was launched first, but the term of Satyagraha was first used in the anti-Rowlatt Act movement.
• Champaran, a district in the state of Bihar, where thousands of landless serfs, indentured labourers, and poor peasants were forced to grow indigo and other cash crops instead of the food crops necessary for their survival.
• The peasants of the region revolted against British rule over indigo cultivation between 1914 and 1916.

Other  Options:

• The Kheda Movement was the second major Satyagraha led by Mahatma Gandhi in India, after the Champaran Satyagraha (1917).

• The Ahmedabad Movement, also known as the Ahmedabad Mill Strike, was one of the early labour movements led by Mahatma Gandhi.

• The Quit India Movement was initiated by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8, 1942, during the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee. It called for an immediate end to British rule in India and became a crucial turning point in the Indian freedom struggle.