NCERT Book Class 12 English (Flamingo) Prose 5 Indigo

5 Indigo
About the author
Louis Fischer (1896-1970) was born in Philadelphia. He served
as a volunteer in the British Army between 1918 and 1920.
Fischer made a career as a journalist and wrote for The New
York Times, The Saturday Review and for European and Asian
publications. He was also a member of the faculty at Princeton
University. The following is an excerpt from his book- The Life of
Mahatma Gandhi. The book has been reviewed as one of the best
books ever written on Gandhi by Times Educational Supplement.

Notice these expressions in the text.
Infer their meaning from the context.
 urge the departure  harbour a man like me
 conflict of duties  seek a prop

When I first visited Gandhi in 1942 at his ashram in Sevagram, in
central India, he said, “I will tell you how it happened that I decided
to urge the departure of the British. It was in 1917.”
He had gone to the December 1916 annual convention of the
Indian National Congress party in Lucknow. There were 2,301
delegates and many visitors. During the proceedings, Gandhi
recounted, “a peasant came up to me looking like any other peasant
in India, poor and emaciated, and said, ‘I am Rajkumar Shukla.
I am from Champaran, and I want you to come to my district’!’’
Gandhi had never heard of the place. It was in the foothills of the
towering Himalayas, near the kingdom of Nepal.
Under an ancient arrangement, the Champaran peasants were
sharecroppers. Rajkumar Shukla was one of them. He was illiterate
but resolute. He had come to the Congress session to complain
about the injustice of the landlord system in Bihar, and somebody
had probably said, “Speak to Gandhi.”