NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Flamingo Chapter 5 Indigo
Page No. 46
Question 1:
Strike out what is not true in the following.
a. Rajkumar Shukla was
\(\quad\) (i) a sharecropper.
\(\quad\) (ii) a politician.
\(\quad\) (iii) delegate .
\(\quad\) (iv) a landlord.
b. Rajkumar Shukla was
\(\quad\) (i) poor.
\(\quad\) (ii) physically strong.
\(\quad\) (iii) illiterate.
Question 2:
Why is Rajkumar Shukla described as being ‘resolute’?
Question 3:
Why do you think the servants thought Gandhi to be another peasant?
NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Flamingo Chapter 5
Page No. 48
Question 1:
List the places that Gandhi visited between his first meeting with Shukla and his arrival at Champaran.
Question 2:
What did the peasants pay the British landlords as rent? What did the British now want instead and why? What would be the impact of synthetic indigo on the prices of natural indigo?
NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Flamingo Chapter 5
Page No. 50
Question 1:
The events in this part of the text illustrate Gandhi’s method of working. Can you identify some instances of this method and link them to his ideas of satyagraha and non-violence?
Page No. 52
Question 1:
Why did Gandhi agree to a settlement of 25 per cent refund to the farmers?
Question 2:
How did the episode change the plight of the peasants?
Understanding the text
Question 1:
Why do you think Gandhi considered the Champaran episode to be a turning-point in his life?
Question 2:
How was Gandhi able to influence lawyers? Give instances.
Question 3:
What was the attitude of the average Indian in smaller localities towards advocates of ‘home rule’?
Question 4:
How do we know that ordinary people too contributed to the freedom movement?
Talking about the text
Discuss the following.
- “Freedom from fear is more important than legal justice for the poor.”
- Do you think that the poor of India are free from fear after Independence?
