Evaluate the ‘Satyagraha Movement’ of Gandhiji against the proposed Rowlatt Act, 1919.
FOREIGN - SET 1 2017
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Satyagraha Movement Against The Rowlatt Act:
- Gandhiji in 1919 decided to launch a nationwide satyagraha against the proposed Rowlatt Act (1919).
- Mahatma Gandhi wanted non-violent civil disobedience against such unjust laws, which would start with a hartal on 6 April.
- Rallies were organised in various cities.
- Workers went on strike in railway workshops, and shops closed down.
- Lines of communication such as the railways and telegraph would be disrupted.
- The British administration decided to clamp down on nationalists.
- Local leaders were put to jail.
- On 13 April the Jallianwalla Bagh incident took place.
- Crowd took to streets in many towns.
- Government started brutal repression.
- At the Calcutta session of the Congress in September 1920 he felt the need to start a Non-Cooperation Movement in support of Khilafat as well as for swaraj.
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