National Webinar on Chargola Exodus to be organised jointly by GC College & Jorhat College

Nov. 27: The Department of Political Science, Jorhat College and GC College are jointly organising an online National Webinar on the centenary of Chorgola Exodus. The webinar will be held at 6 PM on 4 December, 2021. The webinar entitled “Centenary of Chargola Exodus: A Bloody Saga of Indian Freedom Struggle” will be held in Google Meet platform. This was informed by Dr Swarupa Bhattacharjee, Head, Department of Political Science, G.C. College, Silchar.

The tea garden workers’ collective protest and resistance movements reached their peak in 1921, culminating in the famous Chargola Exodus (May 1921). As is well known, during this period strikes broke out almost in all the tea gardens of Assam. What made Chargola so famous was the unique nature of protest movement: more than 50 percent of the total number of workers in the Chargola Valley not only struck work but also decided to quit the gardens for ever ! For this purpose, thousands of workers simultaneously left tea gardens and proceeded on foot to the nearest railway station, Chandpur. There they met with severe atrocities of the security forces.