CBSE Class 12 English Indigo Worksheet Set G

               Very Short Questions

Q.1)        List the words used in the text that are related to legal procedures.

Q.2)        List other words that you know that fall into this category?

Q.3)        What led Gandhiji to urge the British to leave India?

Q.4)        Who was RajKumar Shukla? Why did he want Gandhiji to visit his district?

Q.5)        Who led Gandhiji to Champaran and why?

               Short Questions

Q.6)        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?

Q.7)        Why did Gandhi agree to a settlement of 25 percent refund to the farmers?

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

Q.9)        “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.10)      The qualities of a good leader.

               Long Questions

Q.11)      Rajkumar Shukla, a poor, unassuming peasant, became a catalyst for change by taking Gandhi to Champaran, an act which later culminated into the first successful instance of civil disobedience in India. What qualities do you think helped Shukla and Gandhi respectively to initiate one of the most powerful movements in the history of our national struggle?

Q.12)      How do we know that ordinary people too contributed to the freedom movement?

Q.13)   Gandhi taught a lesson of self-reliance to the sharecroppers of Champaran. His focus was more on making the peasants free from fear rather than on the refund and he was successful in this Endeavour. In this present scenario, we are free but shackled by the chains of intolerance and bigotry.

As the head boy/head girl of the school, you decided to speak in the morning assembly to stress the need to live in peace, harmony, tolerance and respect for each other. Write the speech.

Q.14)      Draft a speech on non-violence as a potent weapon for world peace.

Q.15)     Describe the difficulties faced by Gandhi at Champaran?                                             

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