UPSC Prelims 2018— Question 69

**Concept and analysis:** Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was significant because it brought an agrarian grievance into the emerging national movement and represented one of Gandhi's earliest major satyagrahas in India. The indigo cultivators' struggle connected peasant problems with nationalist politics. It was not primarily an all-India mass mobilisation of lawyers, students and women or a general collapse of plantation agriculture. The question is testing precise UPSC-level identification rather than a broad association. The key is to distinguish the exact institutional, constitutional, historical, geographical, economic or scientific feature being asked. **Option-wise evaluation** **Option A:** Incorrect. Active all-India participation of lawyers, students and women in the National Movement is a different institution, place, definition, proposition or description and does not satisfy the specific requirement of the question. **Option B:** Incorrect. Active involvement of Dalit and Tribal communities of India in the National Movement is a different institution, place, definition, proposition or description and does not satisfy the specific requirement of the question. **Option C:** Correct. Joining of peasant unrest to India’s National Movement directly matches the concept or factual identification established in the analysis. **Option D:** Incorrect. Drastic decrease in the cultivation of plantation crops and commercial crops is a different institution, place, definition, proposition or description and does not satisfy the specific requirement of the question. **UPSC takeaway:** The safest way to solve this type of question is to anchor the answer in the defining feature of the concept and then test every option against that feature. Closely related institutions or terms are often used as distractors. In statement-based questions, do not judge the option as a whole before checking each statement independently. In factual questions, compare the wording of each option with the exact definition, location, institutional role, chronology or scientific property. The correct answer follows from that verification rather than from familiarity with a keyword.