Gandhi and His Early Movements

Champaran Satyagraha

• European planters forced the cultivators to cultivate indigo on ${\displaystyle \frac{3}{20}}$^th of their holdings called as tinkathia system.
• German synthetic dyes enforced indigo out of the market and Europeans planters of Champaran, were keen to release the cultivators from the duty of cultivating indigo.
• The cultivators resisted in 1908 and the extraction continued till Raj Kumar Shukla decided …

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Gandhi and Nationwide Mass Movement

Non-Cooperation Movement

Causes

• The actions after the first World War like decline in the import of Indian goods affected the Indian indigenous industries, factories closed and the workers were in misery.
• Passing of Rowlatt Act in 1919.
• Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
• Introduction of Government of India Act of 1919.
• Khilafat movement.

Khilafat Movement

• The Turkey was defeated by the allied power in the First World War The sultan …

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