What is Non cooperation movement?

Non cooperation movement

After the incidents of the Rowlatt Act, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the Khilafat Movement, Mahatma Gandhi announced his plan to begin Non-Cooperation. The Indian National Congress approved it at the Nagpur session in December 1920. In 1921, mass demonstrations were held against the Prince of Wales during his tour of India. As a result, the Congress and the Khilafat Committees were proclaimed illegal. In several places, the bonfires of foreign clothes were organised. The message of Swadeshi spread everywhere. Most of the households took to weaving clothes with the help of charkhas.

However, the movement was abruptly called off on 11 February 1922 by Gandhi following the Churi Chaura incident in the Gorakhpur district of U.P. Earlier, on 5 February, an angry mob set fire to the police station at Chauri Chaura, and twenty-two police officers were burnt to death. Many top leaders of the country were stunned at this sudden suspension of the Non-Cooperation Movement. As a result, Mahatma Gandhi was arrested on 10 March 1922. Mahatma Gandhi started the non-cooperation movement to press three demands

• Attainment of Swaraj
• Khilafat issue
• An inquiry on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

On 1 August 1920, the non-cooperation movement was initiated by Mahatma Gandhi on his author (same day B. G. Tilak passed away).