At which one of the following Place did Mahatma Gandhi first start his Satyagraha in India?
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- AAhmedabad
- BBardoli
- CChamparanCorrect
- DKheda
Explanation
The correct answer is Champaran because it was here in 1917 that Mahatma Gandhi launched his first Satyagraha movement in India. He went to Champaran in Bihar at the request of Raj Kumar Shukla to investigate the grievances of indigo farmers who were being forced by British planters to grow indigo under the exploitative Tinkathia system. While Ahmedabad and Kheda were also sites of early movements in 1918, and Bardoli took place in 1928, Champaran remains the historic starting point of Gandhi's non violent resistance in the Indian freedom struggle.
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