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What was the attitude of the average Indian in smaller localities towards advocates of ‘home rule’? 

Answer:

Gandhi, on his way to Champaran, decided to meet J.B. Kripalani of the Arts College in Muzzqfarpur, whom he had seen at Tagore's Shantiniketan School. The train reached there at midnight on April 15, 1917. Gandhi stayed there for two days in the home of Professor Malkani, a teacher in a government school. This was an extraordinary thing in those days. It was highly unlikely that a government professor would give shelter to a rebel like him, for fear of termination from service by the government. In smaller regions, the Indians were afraid to show compassion for the supporters of home-rule.