Champaran and Gandhi

Planters, Peasants, and Gandhian Politics

• Author(s): Jacques Pouchepadass,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 277
• ISBN_10: 0195640845
  ISBN_13: 9780195640847
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Historical , History / Asia / South / General ,

Description:... This book traces the history of peasant resistance to the planters, from the sporadic outbreaks of the 1860s to the Champaran Movement of 1917-18, the first experiment in Gandhian mass mobilization in India.