INDIGO:GANDHI'S

EARLY YEARS  OF
FREEDOM
STRUGLE
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Made By: Raghav Sharma

Class:12-A
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Movement
(Africa)   

 It was Africa where Gandhi first

got recognition.
 Gandhi faced racial
discrimination in Africa.
 He was thrown out of the train
after he refused to leave first
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 Then he decided to protest which
later emerged  as a
big Civil Rights Movement.
 Gandhi's ideas, persuation skills,
    And public relations emerged       
    from here. 
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Gandhi ji and his
Early Life           
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
also known as Mahatma Gandhi
was an Indian Lawyer, Anti Colonial
Nationalist and Political Ethicist.

• He was born and raised in Gujrat.

• He trained law in london and

further been to South Africa to
represent Indian merchant in
a lawsuit.
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Gandhi's return to India            

• Gandhi returned to India in 1915 at the request of Gopal Krisha Gokhale.

• He was introduced to indian issues, politics, Indian people primarily

by Gokhale.

• He joined Indian National Congress as Gokhale was the key

leader of the congress party known for his resistance and moderation.

• Gandhi took leadership of congress in 1920 and began escalating his

demands.

• Congress declared India's independence on 26 Jan. 1930.

• British did not recognise the declaration but negotiation

ensued, with the Congress taking a role in a provincial govt.
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India's struggle for Independence 
Various important movements led by Gandhi:-

Champaran Satyagraha(1917)
• This was Gandhi's first major achievement.

• Champaran agitation pitted the local peasantary against their landlords.

 • The peasantry was forced to grow
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• Peasants were reluctant to it as the

demand for Indigo was declining for over
two decades.

• They were also forced to sell there crops

to the planters at a fixed price.

• They appealed to Gandhi in his

Ashram in Ahemdabad.

• Gandhi took the stratergy of

non-violent protest (satyagraha).

• His stratergy took the

administration by surprise and
won concessions from the
authorities.
 Kheda Satyagraha (1918)
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 Kheda was hit by floods and and famines and the peasantry was demanding relief from
taxes.

 Gandhi initiated a signature campaign using Non-Cooperation as a technique.

 Peasants pledged non-payment of revenue even under the threat of confiscation of land.

 The social boycott of revenue officials accompanied the agitation.

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 Gandhi

 After few months the Govt. gave way on important provisions and relaxed the conditions of
payment of revenue taxes until the famine ended.
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Few other Movements led
by Gandhi against the
British Rule-;

 Non-Cooperation Movement

 Salt Satyagraha

 Civil Disobedience

 Khilafat Movement.
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