Bihar Mixed Quiz: Set 13

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.

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.

A sanyasi turned organiser, he built the Bihar Pradesh Kisan Sabha in 1929 to press tenants' claims against the zamindars, and the body became the model for the All India Kisan Sabha founded at Lucknow in April 1936, of which he was the first president with N. G. Ranga as…

Shukla was a cultivator of Champaran who followed Gandhi from the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916 until he agreed to see the indigo districts for himself.

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.

Sher Shah's tomb stands in the middle of a large tank at Sasaram in Rohtas district, the town whose jagir his father held, and it is the work of the architect Aliwal Khan; its octagonal plan, high plinth and great dome make it one of the finest Indo Islamic monuments…

The peasant organisations of the provinces came together at Lucknow in April 1936 as the All India Kisan Sabha, and the Bihar leader Sahajanand Saraswati was chosen its first president, with N. G. Ranga of Andhra as general secretary.

A first relief column sent towards Arrah was ambushed and driven back, and it was the column under Major Vincent Eyre that defeated Kunwar Singh at Bibiganj in early August 1857, raised the siege of the house at Arrah and then went on to destroy Jagdishpur.

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.

Mahavira attained nirvana at Pavapuri in the present Nalanda district of Bihar at the age of seventy two, traditionally in 527 BCE, and the Jal Mandir, a marble temple standing in the middle of a tank, marks the place of his cremation.

Bakasht was land that zamindars had taken into their own cultivation after evicting occupancy tenants during the depression, and the Kisan Sabha fought to get it restored to the tenants.

The Pala king Dharmapala founded Vikramshila in the late eighth century at Antichak in what is now Bhagalpur district, on a height above the Ganga, as a rival and a complement to Nalanda.

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.

Sheohar in north Bihar is the smallest district of the state by area, and almost all of that area is cultivated plain with closely spaced villages, so it recorded the highest number of persons per square kilometre in 2011, above the state figure of 1,106.

Jatra Oraon, also called Jatra Bhagat, preached among the Oraons of the Gumla and Ranchi country that they should give up liquor, animal sacrifice and work for landlords, and refuse to pay rent to outsiders.

Harisena was Samudragupta's court poet and a high officer, and he composed the long eulogy engraved on an older Ashokan pillar now at Allahabad.

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.

The rising of 1899 and 1900 forced the administration to look at the loss of tribal land, and the Act of 1908 recognised the khuntkatti right by which Munda families held land collectively, restricted its transfer to outsiders and ended the forced labour known as beth begari.

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.

The Kols of Chotanagpur rose when their lands were given over to outsiders, called dikus, as farms and leases, and the rising under Buddho Bhagat spread through Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Palamu and Singhbhum before troops put it down.