# Gandhi opens the Champaran inquiry into indigo planters’ tinkathia grievances

Date: 1917

## The fact

In April 1917 Gandhi went to Champaran, was ordered to leave, refused, and then sat on a government inquiry into European planters’ tinkathia indigo system. It is not a land-reform statute for all Bihar.

## Context

Planter extraction is the inequality. His method mixed petitions, oaths, and later a settlement. Peasants and local lawyers did the bulk of statements. Complex.

[Mahatma Gandhi](/people/mahatma-gandhi) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official archival, ashram, or government pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Gandhi Heritage Portal (https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/; Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust).

## Significance

An inquiry is not zamindari abolition. Keep the date on 1917.

An inquiry is not zamindari abolition. Keep the date on 1917.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [income-inequality](/drivers/income-inequality). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is income-inequality. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Mahatma Gandhi: https://factrail.ai/people/mahatma-gandhi

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mahatma-Gandhi
- https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ga-champaran-1917