As a result of the episode, the peasants saw that they had rights and defenders. They learned courage and self-reliance.

Also, within a few years the British planters abandoned their estates, which reverted to the peasants. Indigo sharecropping disappeared.

Gandhi saw the cultural and social backwardness in the Champaran villages and wanted to do something about it immediately. Primary schools were opened in six villages. The ashram rules on personal cleanliness and community sanitation by Kasturbai. Gandhi also got a doctor to volunteer his services for six months to improve the miserable health conditions.