Begar – Labour that villagers were forced to contribute without any paymen

 Swaraj in the Plantations .

. Workers too had their own understanding of Mahatma Gandhi and the notion of swaraj.

For plantation workers in Assam, freedom meant the right to move freely in and out of the confined space in which they were enclosed,.

 and it meant retaining a link with the village from which they had come.

 Under the Inland Emigration Act of 1859, plantation workers were not permitted to leave the tea gardens without permission.