Question

Who highlighted the Plight of the peasants of Champaran by Writing under pseudonyms like 'Dukhi', 'Dukhi Atma', 'Dukhi Hridaya'?
1. Peer Muhammad Moonis
2. Rajendra Prasad
3. Sahajananda Saraswati
4. S.N. Sinha

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Peer Muhammad Moonis

The correct answer is Peer Muhammad Moonis.

• Peer Mohammad Munis was one of the founders of the Bihar Hindi Sahitya Sammelan which was founded in Sonepur in 1919.
• He highlighted the plinth of the peasants of Champaran by writing under pseudonyms like ‘Dukhi’, ‘Dukhi Atma’, and ‘Dukhi Hridya’.
• The Champaran Satyagraha was the combination of elements of extra-constitutional struggle as well as the employment of moral force against an adversary, an exemplar of the rule of law; and the use of compromise as a gambit.
• It is marked as India’s First Civil Disobedience Movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi to protest against the injustice meted out to tenant farmers in the Champaran district of Bihar.