The Indigo Rebellion
The Indigo Rebellion was Gandhi's first project. Indigo is a dye that is valuable for Britain. Large farms were run by the British, and Indian sharecroppers (people who work on land they don't own) worked the indigo fields. They planted indigo and got barely enough money to survive. Around 1915, the British no longer needed the indigo crops so the sharecroppers were forced to pay higher taxes for their contract to be released. Gandhi started to stir up India about the situation at hand, but the British stopped him because they knew he'd be trouble. Gandhi refused to stop, so he went to court for his trial . The court didn't sentence him to prison because they knew riots would occur. After he was released, Gandhi discovered the British weren't giving the sharecroppers minimum wage so they paid some of the money back to the farmers and agreed to have nicer working conditions.