Explain the response of the plantationworkers to the Non-Cooperation Movement started by Gandhiji.
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- Plantation workers of Assam too had their own understanding of Mahatma Gandhi and the notion of Swaraj.
- For plantation workers, freedom meant the right to move freely in and out of the confined space in which they were enclosed and it meant retaining a link with the village from which they had come.
- Under the Inland Emigration Act of 1859, plantation workers were not permitted to leave the tea gardens without permission and in fact they were rarely given such permissions.
- When they heard of the Non-Cooperation Movement, thousands of workers defied the authorities, left the plantation and headed home.
- They never reached their destinations because of railways and steamer strike, they were caught by the police and brutally beaten up.
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