Tag: non-cooperation movement

Thousands of students left government-controlled schools and colleges, headmasters and teachers resigned, and lawyers gave up their legal practices. The council elections were boycotted.

In 1920, Gandhiji started the Non-Cooperation Movement. He advised the people not to cooperate with the British, with a view to bring the administration to a standstill.

The peasant revolt in Awadh was led by the baba Ramchandra. This movement was against talukdars and landlords who demanded from peasants exorbitantly high rents and a variety of other cesses. Baba Ram Chandra was an Indian trade unionist who organised the farmers of Oudh into forming a united front to fight against the abuses of landlords in 1920s and 1930s.

A Congress procession of 3,300 peasants were fired upon by the police in Chauri Chaura at Gorakhpur. The angry crowd set the police station on fire , killing twenty two policemen. Gandhiji had always emphasised that the entire movement should be non-violent & peaceful. Since the movement became violent, Gandhiji withdrew the movement in 1922.

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919 when a crowd of nonviolent protesters, along with Baishakhi pilgrims, who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab, were fired upon by troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer. The civilians had assembled to participate in the annual Baisakhi celebrations—both a religious and cultural festival for the Punjabis. Coming from outside the city, they may have been unaware of the martial law that had been imposed.

C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru formed the Swaraj Party within the Congress to argue for a return to council politics. The main purpose was to oppose British policies within the councils, argue for reform and also demonstrate that these councils were not truly democratic.

The police fired upon a Congress procession of 3,300 peasants at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur. The angry crowd set the police station on fire, killing 22 policemen. Gandhiji wanted the movement to be non-violent but since the movement became violent he called it off in 1922.

The police fired upon a Congress procession of 3300 peasants at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur. The angry crowd set the police station on fire, killing twenty two policemen. Since the movement took a violent turn, Gandhiji called off the movement in 1922.

Mahatma Gandhi felt the need to launch a more broad-based movement in India. But he was certain that no such movement could be organized without bringing the Hindus and Muslims closer together. One way of doing this, he felt, was to take up the Khilafat issue.