This Bihar quiz on Champaran Satyagraha and the Freedom Struggle in Bihar puts 11 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic, 1 of them asked in real previous-year papers. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
11 questions with answers and explanations
The Champaran Satyagraha took place in which of the following states of India?
Champaran is a district of north Bihar, with Motihari as its headquarters, and the satyagraha of 1917 was fought there against the indigo planters' tinkathia system.
Read the full explanation →Who persuaded Mahatma Gandhi to visit Champaran?
Shukla was a cultivator of Champaran who met Gandhi at the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916 and followed him from place to place until Gandhi agreed to come to the district.
Read the full explanation →In the tinkathia system of Champaran, the cultivator was required to grow indigo on
The word tinkathia comes from the obligation to plant indigo on three kathas out of every twenty kathas of land, twenty kathas making one bigha in the local measure.
Read the full explanation →The enhanced rent that Champaran planters charged for releasing tenants from indigo cultivation was called
When synthetic dye destroyed the market for natural indigo, the planters freed tenants from the obligation to grow it but raised their rent permanently; this enhancement was known as sharahbeshi.
Read the full explanation →The Champaran Agrarian Act, which abolished the tinkathia system, was passed in which year?
The government appointed the Champaran Agrarian Enquiry Committee in 1917 with Gandhi as one of its members, and acting on its report Parliament of the province passed the Champaran Agrarian Act in 1918.
Read the full explanation →Gandhi arrived in Bihar for the Champaran satyagraha first at which city?
Gandhi reached Patna on 10 April 1917, stayed briefly in the city, then went to Muzaffarpur, where J. B. Kripalani was teaching and had gathered students to receive him, and only afterwards moved on to Motihari in Champaran, where the order to leave the district was served on him.
Read the full explanation →During the Quit India movement, seven students were shot dead on 11 August 1942 while hoisting the national flag on which building?
On 11 August 1942, in the first days of the Quit India movement, a procession of students reached the Secretariat at Patna to hoist the national flag on its dome; police firing killed seven of them.
Read the full explanation →Jayaprakash Narayan escaped in 1942 from which jail to organise underground resistance?
Jayaprakash Narayan, with a few companions, escaped over the wall of Hazaribagh Central Jail on the Diwali night of 9 November 1942 and went on to organise the underground phase of the Quit India movement from Nepal and the eastern districts.
Read the full explanation →Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, who organised the peasants of Bihar, was the first president of which organisation?
Sahajanand Saraswati built the peasant movement in Bihar through the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha from 1929 and became the first president of the All India Kisan Sabha, formed in 1936, with N. G. Ranga as its general secretary.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was a direct outcome of the Champaran satyagraha?
The enquiry committee of 1917 accepted the cultivators' case, and the Champaran Agrarian Act of 1918 ended the obligation to grow indigo on three kathas in twenty and ordered a partial refund of the illegal exactions.
Read the full explanation →Who became the first Chief Minister of Bihar after independence?
Shri Krishna Sinha, also called Shri Babu, led the Congress ministry of 1937 and became the first Chief Minister of Bihar after independence, remembered for the zamindari abolition legislation and for opening the Baidyanath temple to all.
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