Q. Mahatama Gandhi had launched his first Satyagraha in India from which among the following places?
Answer: Champaran
Notes: Mahatama Gandhi had launched his first Satyagraha in Champaran, Bihar in 1917. He was requested to intervene in the matter of the Indigo Planters by Rajkumar Shukla. The peasants were forcd to grow indigo on 3/20th of the land which was known as Tinkathiya System. Gandhiji’s agitation abolished the system and also 25% of the illegally taken money from the planters were compensated by the authority. The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was Mahatma Gandhi’s first Satyagraha.

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