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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.
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]
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The Swaraj Party was formed on 1 January 1923 by Indian politicians and members of the Indian National Congress who had opposed Mahatma's suspension of all civil resistance on 12 February 1922 in response to the Chauri Chaura tragedy, where policemen were killed by a mob of protestors.
As Americans nationwide have risen up against racial injustice and police brutality, our listening habits have followed suit.
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).
Protest songs, from ‘John Brown’s Body’ to ‘Fight the Power,’ have had a long and celebrated history, but in 2024 it feels like the protest song has been oddly muted, writes Bryan Reesman.