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The people of the district did not forget the 19 persons tried and executed after the Chauri Chaura incident. In 1971, they formed an association named Chauri Chaura Shaheed Smarak Samiti. In 1973, this Samiti constructed near the lake at Chauri Chaura a 12.2-metre-tall (40 ft) triangular minaret on each side of which a figure is depicted ...
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).
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.
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]
February – The Chauri Chaura incident occurs, over time work where a mob of about 3000 kills some policemen. With the Non-cooperation movement (NCM) taking an increasingly violent form, this is the last straw to Gandhi's sense of discipline. He immediately calls for suspension of the NCM, leaving many Congress activists disappointed.
A dramatic incident unfolded at a sacred Sikh shrine in northern India on Wednesday when a prominent politician was shot at during a religious observance.. The shooter, Narain Singh Chaura ...
Mundera Bazar is a town and a nagar panchayat in Gorakhpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.MRs. Sunita Gupta , is the chairman of this nagar panchayat. Mundera Bazar is related to the Chauri Chaura incident of 5 February 1922, who many commentators, following tradition established by R. Palme Dutt in India today, have continued to condemn decision taken by Gandhiji to withdraw ...
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