Gandhian Era · 1920–1922
Non-Cooperation Movement
Gandhi launched a nationwide boycott of British courts, schools, councils and cloth, joined with the Khilafat cause. He called it off after the violence at Chauri Chaura.
Causes
- Jallianwala Bagh
- Khilafat grievances
- Rowlatt Act
Consequences
- First true mass movement
- Hindu–Muslim unity at a high point
- Withdrawn in February 1922
Significance
Made the Congress a mass party.
People
Key terms
Part of
Sources
- Bipan Chandra et al., India's Struggle for Independence (Penguin, 1988)
- Sumit Sarkar, Modern India 1885–1947 (Macmillan, 1983)
- NCERT, Themes in Indian History Part III, Class XII