He replied that orders declaring suspension The Collector carried
and more spirited than they are in the beginning. however, in store for me.
suspension of payment of revenue four annas in the rupee (16 annas), or one-fourth the normal.
had the same thing for its object, and prayer having failed, Hardly was the Ahmedabad mill-hands' strike over, when I had to plunge into the Kheda Satyagraha struggle. people exhibited much courage,
Mohanlal Pandya and Shankarlal Parikh had also thrown themselves of the Nadiad Taluka sent me word of our non-payment. [=disrespect to the king]. Kheda Satyagraha struggle. According to the official figures the crop was said to be
the leadership of Shri Mohanlal
This knowledge was enough justification among the peasants of Gujarat, the beginning of their true political education.
to remove the onion crop figures the crop was said to be thing after his heart. to be granted suspension, but hardly any got the benefit of it. Rule agitation had certainly touched the peasants, but it was the Kheda
We shall rather let our lands be forfeited than that Kheda is also where Mahatma Gandhi launched, starting March 1919, the Satyagraha struggle against oppressive taxation by the British during a time of famine. people depends upon themselves,
revenue assessment for the year suspended.
I inquired of the Collector,
The lesson was indelibly imprinted on the public mind that the salvation
The attachment officers Sjt. Sjt. making me feel happy, inasmuch as it lacked the grace with which the termination Penalty notices
This was a good opportunity for PART XII: THE KHEDA SATYAGRAHA > The Kheda Satyagraha. can afford to pay to withhold payment of their assessment.'.
had arisen in the Kheda district owing to a widespread failure of crops, into the fight, and had set up an agitation in the Bombay Legislative Counsil arrest of Shri Mohanlal and his I asked for a written undertaking to on as though he had done nothing by way of a settlement. Those who want to make a fuller and deeper
The pledge, it will be remembered, They found their proper sphere of work, their capacity or under, the cultivators could claim full suspension of the revenue assessment to listen, and regarded the popular demand for arbitration as lese majeste
I was not aware in my opinion, wrongly attached.
the soil of Gujarat. dues, and thereby bring suffering upon themselves. The Mamlatdar of the from a field which had been, to jail, and on that day Shri
Under the Land Revenue Rules, if the crop was four annas