●  When Gandhiji returned from South Africa, he heard about the case in Champaran. He found out that the British forced poor peasants to grow indigo and the peasants had no other choice.

●  More than the cultivation of Indigo, what was appalling was the sharing system that was prevalent –Tinkathia System.

●  According to the Tinkathia System, farmers were under compulsion to grow Indigo on 3/20th of their land and were allowed to take only one-third of the indigo produced by themselves)

●  Raj Kumar Shukla was an indigo cultivator of Champaran (Bihar), who met Gandhiji to make him aware of the plight of the cultivators in Champaran and persuaded him to come there.

●  It was during this agitation, that Gandhi was addressed by the people as Bapu (This was given by Subhash Chandra Bose) and Mahatma (It was given by Rabindranath Tagore).

●  Very significant aspect of the Champaran Satyagraha was the joining of peasant unrest to India's National Movement.