Indigo

Previous Years' CBSE Board Questions

(2 marks)

What does Gandhi refer to as 'conflict of duties'? (2023) 📳

How is Gandhi critical of the lawyers?

(Foreign 2015)

1. How did Gandhi try to improve the cultural and social backwardness of people living in Champaran villages? (2022 C) U
2. What conflict of duty was Gandhi involved in? (2022)
3. In the Motihari court, what caused the delay in the trial? (Term II, 2021-22)
4. 'The settlement given to the sharecroppers was symbolic.' Justify why Gandhi thought so. (Term II, 2021-22) U
5. Why did Gandhiji feel that taking the Champaran case to the court was useless? (Delhi 2014)
6. How did the Champaran peasants react when they heard that a Mahatma had come to help them? (Al 2014C) R
7. What made the Lieutenant Governor drop the case against Gandhiji? (AI 2014C)

SAII (3 marks)

1. Why do you think Gandhiji considered the Champaran episode to be a turning point in his life? (Delhi 2019)

Though the sharecroppers of Champaran received only one-fourth of the compensation, how can the Champaran struggle still be termed a huge success and victory? (2018)

Why was Gandhiji opposed to C.F. Andrews helping him in Champaran? (Delhi 2016)

1. Why did Gandhiji agree to a settlement of mere 25 percent? (Delhi 2016)

At Champaran what did the British landlords want from the sharecroppers? (Foreign 2016) R

1. After initial reluctance why did the lawyers tell Gandhiji that they were ready to follow him into jail? (Foreign 2016)
2. How did Rajkumar Shukla establish that he was resolute? (Al 2015)
3. How was Gandhi treated at Rajendra Prasad's house? (Al 2015)

What were the terms of the indigo contract between the British landlords and the Indian peasants?

How did Gandhi show that he cared for the cultural

and social backwardness of Champaran villagers?

(Foreign 2015) Ey

Why did Gandhi tell the court that he was involved

in a 'conflict of duties'? (Foreign 2015)

21. Why is Raj Kumar Shukla described as being

'resolute'? (Delhi 2015C) U

SAIII (4 marks)

Gandhi worked for the social backwardness in the

Champaran villages. Elaborate. (2022)

Gandhi came to the conclusion that the peasants

should stop going to law courts. Explain. (2022 C)

(5 marks)

24. Why is the Champaran episode considered as the

beginning of the Indian struggle for independence?

(2023)

25. Why is Champaran episode considered to be the

beginning of the Indian struggle for Independence?

(Al 2014) EV Cr

Gandhiji's was not a loyalty to abstractions; it was

a loyalty to living human beings. Why did Gandhiji

continue his stay in Champaran even after indigo

sharecropping disappeared? (Al 2014)

Describe how according to Louis Fischer, Gandhiji

succeeded in his Champaran campaign.

(Delhi 2014C) An

LAII (6 marks)

1. How did Civil Disobedience triumph at Motihari? (2020) (EV
2. How did Gandhiji use Satyagraha and non-violence at Champaran to achieve his goal? (2020) An
3. How did Mahatma Gandhi help the Champaran peasants? (2019 C)
4. When and why did the author say that civil disobedience had triumphed for the first time in modern India? (Al 2019) An Ev
5. What did Gandhiji do to remove the cultural and social backwardness in the Champaran villages? (Delhi 2015C)
6. How did a visit to Champaran become a turning point in Gandhiji's life? How does this show Gandhi's love and concern for the common people of India? (AI 2015C)

(Al 2015) An

CBSE Sample Questions

SAI (2 marks)

1 As the host of a talk show, introduce Rajkumar Shukla to the audience by stating any two of his defining qualities.

You may begin your answer like this:

Meet Rajkumar Shukla, the man who played a pivotal in the Champaran Movement. He ......

(Term II, 2021-22)

SA III (4 marks)

Biographies include features of non-fiction texts -

factual information and different text structures

such as description, sequence, comparison, cause

and effect, or problem and solution. Examine Indigo

in the light of this statement, in about 120-150

words. (Term II, 2021-22)

ANSWERS

Previous Years' CBSE Board Questions

1 According to Gandhi, his involvement in the Champaran case is a "conflict of duties". He referred to the conflict between his duty to the people of India, his people, who were suffering at the hands of the colonisers. On the other hand, he also had the duty to uphold the law as a law-abiding citizen. He decided to disobey the order

to leave not because he wanted to break the law, but that

he needed to listen to the higher law, that of the voice of

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[Topper's Answer, 2022]

1. When the peasants of Champaran heard about the

impending trail of someone who had stood up for them, they assembled in large numbers. This mobilization of the peasants in thousands resulted in the supposed trail of Mahatma Gandhi to be postponed.

1. The settlement of 25% refund was offered by the

British landlords in the belief that the peasants would reject and then create a deadlock and prolong the dispute. But Gandhiji agreed to the said amount, though meagre. To him, the amount of the refund was less

important than the fact that the landlords had to

surrender not only financially, but also lose part of their

prestige.

Gandhiji felt that taking the Champaran case to the

court was useless because according to him, peasants

were guite crushed and fear-stricken. Gandhiji felt that

there was little hope of getting justice as the case was

against the British landlords. Moreover, the lawyers were

collecting big fees from the poor peasants. He knew that

the actual relief for the peasants would come when they

become free from fear.