Summary:
Triggered movementsThe Champaran Satyagraha triggered a series of movements; the Ahmedabad workers’ strike against indigenous mill owners, the Kheda Satyagraha against revenue enhancement, the all-India April Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act and finally the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movement, Mr.
Habib said. more-inNoted historian Irfan Habib on Saturday said that the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 had opened a new phase in the national movement by joining it to the great struggle of the Indian peasantry for bread and land. But the Champaran Satyagraha would always remain as the starting point, the yoking, for the first time, of the peasant unrest to the national movement, an assured guarantee for the ultimate success of the latter, he added. Speaking at a function to celebrate the Champaran Satyagraha centenary organised by non-profit organisation SAHMAT, Mr.
Habib said that there should be celebrations of the centenary of one of the most remarkable episodes of modern Indian history when the ideals and events of our national movement seemed to be fading away from public memory..