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Several of the leaders were arrested and put in the lock-up at the Chauri Chaura police station. In response to this, a protest against the police was called on 4 February, to be held at the Bazaar. [3] On 4 February, approximately 2,000 to 2,500 protesters assembled and began marching towards the market lane at Chauri Chaura.
Even though it succeeded in raising millions of Indians in protest against the British-created Rowlatt Act, violence broke out at Chauri Chaura, where a mob killed 22 unarmed policemen. Gandhi suspended the protest, against the opposition of other Congress members. He decided that Indians were not yet ready for successful nonviolent resistance ...
The non-cooperation movement was among the broader movement for Indian independence from British rule [10] and ended, as Nehru described in his autobiography, "suddenly" on 4 February 1922 after the Chauri Chaura incident. [11] Subsequent independence movements were the Civil Disobedience Movement and the Quit India Movement. [10]
In 1922, the Chauri Chaura incident took place in the town when protesters set fire to a police station and killed at least 22 policemen in retaliation for the police firing on several protesters who had taken part in the non-cooperation movement as part of the Indian freedom struggle. This incident is depicted in the movie Gandhi.
Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992 is a 1995 book by Shahid Amin. [1] A Professor of History at Delhi University , Amin was a Visiting Fellow at Stanford , Princeton , and Berlin . He also authored Sugarcane and Sugar in Gorakhpur (1984).
Articles relating to protests in British India (1612-1947). Subcategories. ... Chauri Chaura incident; Cow protection movement; F. Faraizi movement; H. 1810 House Tax ...
The non-cooperation movement was halted in 1922 as a result of the Chauri Chaura incident. [46] Nehru's two-year term as general secretary ended after 1925, [44] and earlier that year he resigned as mayor of Allahabad due to his disillusionment with municipal politics. [47]
Malaviya only donned his lawyer's robe once more, in 1924 following the Chauri Chaura incident in which a police station was attacked and set on fire in February 1922, as a result of which Mahatma Gandhi called off the then launched Non-cooperation movement. The sessions court had sentenced 170 persons to the gallows for the attack.