CBSE Class 12 English Indigo Worksheet Set F

                        Very Short Questions

Q.1)        What was the effect of synthetic indigo on natural indigo crop?

Q.2)        How did British landlords compel poor peasants?

Q.3)        Why did Gandhiji scold the lawyers?

Q.4)        How did the Champaran episode prove to be a turning point in the political career of Gandhiji?

Q.5)        What did Gandhiji do for social upliftment of poor families of peasants?

               Short Questions

Q.6)        Notice the use or Non-use of the comma in the following sentences:

Q.7)        The events of this part of the text illustrate Gandhi’s method of working. Can you identify some instances of this method and link them to his idea of Satyagraha and non-violence?

Q.8)        Why do you think Gandhi considered the Champaran episode to be a turning point in his life?

Q.9)        How was Gandhi able to influence lawyers? Give instances.

Q.10)      How do we know that ordinary people too contributed to the freedom movement?

               Long Questions

Q.11)      Gandhi was impressed by the sharecropper’s tenacity and this led to a series of events which had a far-reaching impact on Indian freedom struggle. Discuss with reference to the excerpt by Louis Fischer’s ‘Indigo’.

Q.12)      “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?

Q.13)      What values do we learn from Gandhi’s campaign (Indigo) to combat the present-day problems of exploitations?

Q.14)      Exploitation is a universal phenomenon. The poor indigo farmers were exploited by the British landlords to which Gandhiji objected. Even after our independence we find exploitation of unorganized labour. What values do we learn from Gandhi’s campaign to counter the present day problems of exploitation?

Q.15)      What qualities helped Shukla and Gandhi, respectively, to initiate one of the most powerful movements in the history of our freedom struggle?

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