Hari Mohan
27, Ranjeet Nagar
Bharatpur
July 18 —
The Editor
The Indian Express
Bharatpur
Subject:
Regarding exploitation of the Indigo farmers at the hands of the English landlords.
Sir
It’s very painful to inform that most of the Indian farmers were working as sharecroppers in Champaran. They were working on the land of English landlords and were forced to grow indigo on the fifteen per cent area of the total farmland. This whole cultivation was to be surrendered to the landlords as the rent of the land. The British landlords were asking for compensation from the farmers to free them from the agreement. It was an unfair act of the English landlords. They exploited our poor Indian farmers. But due to the efforts of Gandhiji, the English landlords gave in and the exploitation of Indian farmers came to an end. You are respectfully requested to publish this article about the exploitation of the English landlords in your esteemed newspaper.
Yours sincerely
Hari Mohan
