Non-cooperation movement (1919–1922)
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The Non-Cooperation Movement was a political campaign launched on December, 1920, by Mahatma Gandhi to have Indians revoke their cooperation from the British government, with the aim of persuading them to grant self-governance.[1][2][3]
This came as result of the Indian National Congress (INC) withdrawing its support for British reforms following the Rowlatt Act of March 18, 1919 – which suspended the rights of political prisoners in sedition trials,[4] and was seen as a "political awakening" by Indians and as a "threat" by the British[5]—which led to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of April 13, 1919.[4][6]
The movement was one of Gandhi's first organized acts of large-scale satyagraha.[2] Gandhi's planning of the non-cooperation movement included persuading all Indians to withdraw their labour from any activity that "sustained the British government and also economy in India,"[7] including British industries and educational institutions.[7] Through non-violent means, or ahimsa, protesters would refuse to buy British goods, adopt the use of local handicrafts, and picket liquor shops.[8] In addition to promoting "self-reliance" by spinning khadi, buying Indian-made goods only, and boycotting British goods, Gandhi's non-cooperation movement also called for stopping planned dismemberment of Turkey (Khilafat Movement) and the end to untouchability. This resulted in publicly-held meetings and strikes (hartals), which led to the first arrests of both Jawaharlal Nehru and his father, Motilal Nehru, on 6 December 1921.[9]
The non-cooperation movement was among the broader movement for Indian independence from British rule[10] and ended, as Nehru described in his autobiography, "suddenly" on 4 February 1922 after the Chauri Chaura incident.[11] Subsequent independence movements were the Civil Disobedience Movement and the Quit India Movement.[10]
Though intended to be non-violent, the movement was eventually called off by Gandhi in February 1922 following the Chauri Chaura incident. After police opened fire on a crowd of protesters, killing and injuring several, the protesters followed the police back to their station and burned it down, killing the shooters and several other police inside.[3] Nonetheless, the movement marked the transition of Indian nationalism from a middle-class basis to the masses.[2]