Non-Cooperation Movement

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Non-Cooperation Movement by Mind Map: Non-Cooperation Movement

1. Effect of NCM on Economic Front

1.1. ➔ Foreign goods were boycotted, liquor shops picketed, and foreign cloth burnt in huge bonfire.

1.2. ➔ The import of foreign cloth halved between 1921 and 1922.

1.3. ➔ Result- production of Indian textile mills and handlooms increased.

1.4. ➔ Merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance foreign trade.

2. Why NCM slowed down?

2.1. ➔ Khadi Clothes were expensive to buy

2.2. ➔ Students and teachers started going back to government schools

2.3. ➔ Lawyers joined back work in government courts, due to lack of alternative institutions.

2.4. ➔ To maintain their daily livings they needed to join back to their respective work areas

3. The Non-Cooperation Khilafat Movement began in January 1921, various social groups participated in this movement and each of them had their own problems.

4. REBELLION IN COUNTRYSIDE (By PEASANTS)

4.1. ➔ In Awadh, peasants were led by Baba Ramchandra, a sanyasi who had earlier been to Fiji as an indentured laborer

4.2. ➔ They were against oppressive rule of talukdars and landlords

4.3. ➔ The peasants demanded reduction of revenue, abolition of begar & social boycott of oppressive landlords.

4.4. ➔ Nai – Dhobi bandhs were organized by panchayats to deprive landlords of the services of even barbers and washermen.

5. ➔ In June 1920, Jawaharlal Nehru explored the villages in Awadh talking to the villagers & tried to understand their grievances ➔ By October, Jawaharlal Nehru put 'the Oudh Kisan Sabha' and was headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, Baba Ramchandra and a few others. ➔ Within a month, over 300 branches had been set up in the villages around the region. ➔ However, this movements success, made congress leaderships unhappy.

6. REASON BEHIND MOVEMENT FAILURE

6.1. ➔ Houses of talukdars and merchants were attacked

6.2. ➔ Bazaars were looted, and grain hoards were taken over.

6.3. ➔ Local leaders told peasants that Gandhiji had declared that land was to be redistributed among the poor

6.4. ➔ In the name of gandhi, everyone spread wrong rumors and took actions violently which were against gandhi's words

7. REBELLION IN COUNTRYSIDE (By TRIBALS)

7.1. GUDEM HILLS of ANDHRA PRADESH

7.1.1. ➔ A militant guerrilla movement spread in the early 1920s. ➔ The colonial government had closed large forest areas, preventing people from entering the forests. This affected their livelihood as well as their traditional rights. ➔ People were tired of working as forced begar for road construction.

7.1.2. Alluri Sitaram Raju

7.1.2.1. ➔ Claimed he had a variety of special powers and proclaimed him as an incarnation of God. ➔ Persuaded people to wear khadi and give up drinking. ➔ But at the same time, he asserted that India could be liberated only by the use of force, not non-violence.

7.1.2.2. ➔ The Gudem rebels attacked police stations. ➔ Attempted to kill British officials and carried on guerrilla warfare for achieving swaraj. ➔ Raju was captured & executed in 1924, overtime became a folk hero.

8. SWARAJ IN PLANTATION

8.1. Swaraj Plantation workers wanted to go to their respective villages but 'Inland Emigration Act 1859 Act' stopped them to do so, so they wanted freedom from this injustice act and demanded 'right to move freely' right.

8.2. By NCM they defied the authorities and left plantations and headed home because they believed that Gandhi Raj was coming & everyone would be given land in their own villages. Stranded on the way by a railway and steamer strike, they were caught by the police and were brutally beaten up.

8.3. Stranded on the way by a railway and steamer strike, they were caught by the police and were brutally beaten up.

9. At Chauri Chaura in1922, Gorakhpur a peaceful demonstration in a bazaar turned into a violent clash with the police. This made Mahatma Gandhi cancel the Non-Cooperation Movement.

10. In February 1922, Mahatma Gandhi finally withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement as it turned violent in many places.