(3) The Champaran peasant movement was launched in 1917-18. Its objective was to create awakening among the peasants against the European planters. These planters resorted to illegal and inhuman methods of indigo cultivation at a cost which by no canons of justice could be called an adequate remuneration for the labour done by the peasants. The peasants (bhumihars) of the Champaran and other areas of North Bihar were growing the Indigo under the tinkathia system. Under the tinkathia system the peasants were bound to plant 3 out of 20 parts of his land with indigo for his landlord. Gandhiji studied the grievances of the Champaran peasantry. The peasants opposed not only the European planters but also the jamindars.