"Workers too had their own understanding of Mahatma Gandhi's thoughts and the notion of Swaraj." Explain the statement with the example of Assam.

(vii) For plantation workers in Assam, freedom meant the right to move freely.

(viii) Under the Inland Emigration Act of $\displaystyle 1859$, plantation workers were not permitted to leave the tea gardens without permission, and in fact they were rarely given such permission.

(ix) Thousands of workers defied the authorities, left the plantations and headed home.

(x) They believed that Gandhi Raj was coming and everyone would be given land in their own villages.

(xi) Stranded on the way by a railway and steamer strike, they were caught by the police and brutally beaten up.

(xii) They interpreted the term ‘Swaraj’ in their own ways, imagining it to be a time when all suffering and all troubles would be over.

(xiii) Tribals chanted Gandhiji’s name and raised slogans demanding ‘Swatantra Bharat’,

(xiv) They emotionally related Gandhi ji with an all-India agitation.