Bihar in the National Movement — Champaran to Total Revolution

Why This Area Has Its Own Half

The syllabus heading is *"India's national movement and Bihar's contribution to it"*. The second half is where the marks are, because national material covers the first half and says almost nothing about the second.

The arc runs:

• ›1857 — Kunwar Singh of Jagdishpur, in present-day Bhojpur, took the field at nearly eighty and died in April 1858, shortly after his last victory
• ›1917 — Champaran, Gandhi's first satyagraha in India
• ›1942 — Quit India, in which Jayaprakash Narayan escaped from Hazaribagh Central Jail and ran the underground movement
• ›1946 — the Constituent Assembly, whose first sitting and whose Presidency both went to Bihari men
• ›1974 — Sampoorna Kranti, called from Gandhi Maidan, Patna

One state, five moments, and every one of them is a question.

1. Who persuaded Gandhi to come to Champaran in 1917?

2. Under the Tinkathia system, the cultivator was compelled to grow indigo on:

3. The Champaran agitation led directly to the passing of:

4. The first sitting of the Constituent Assembly on 9 December 1946 was chaired by:

5. During the Quit India Movement of 1942, Jayaprakash Narayan famously escaped from which jail?

6. Jayaprakash Narayan gave his call for Sampoorna Kranti (Total Revolution) at Gandhi Maidan, Patna, in:

7. Sri Krishna Sinha, the first Chief Minister of Bihar, was the first chief minister in India to:

8. Anugrah Narayan Sinha, honoured as 'Bihar Vibhuti', held which office in independent Bihar?