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The Kheda Satyagraha of 1918 was a satyagraha movement in the Kheda district of Gujarat in India organised by Mahatma Gandhi during the period of the British Raj. It was a major revolt in the Indian independence movement. It was the second Satyagraha movement, which was launched 7 days after the Ahmedabad mill strike.
Kheda was a large military station until 1830, when the cantonment was removed to Deesa. Brahmin established many villages in the Kheda District area, as did Jats and other groups. Kheda is also where Mahatma Gandhi launched, starting March 1919, the Satyagraha struggle against oppressive taxation by the British during a time of famine.
Kheda District was also known as Kaira District in British Raj. Kheda District one of the thirty-three districts of Gujarat state in western India. It is part of the region known as Charotar, consisting of Kheda and Anand districts. Kheda was Former Administrative Capital In British Raj. Now Nadiad is the administrative headquarters of the ...
Kheda Satyagraha [1] Law. Usurious Loans Act; Births. 19 August – Shankar Dayal Sharma, 9th president of India (died 1999) [2] Deaths. 22 July ...
Champaran Satyagraha (1917), the first satyagraha movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in British India; August Declaration, 1917; Saddler University Commission or Calcutta Commission (1917) Kheda Satyagraha of 1918; Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms (1919) Government of India Act 1919; Rowlatt Act (1919) Jallianwala Bagh massacre (1919)
The movement was one of Gandhi's first organized acts of large-scale satyagraha. [2] Gandhi's planning of the non-cooperation movement included persuading all Indians to withdraw their labour from any activity that "sustained the British government and also economy in India," [ 7 ] including British industries and educational institutions. [ 7 ]
In 1918, he participated in the Kheda Satyagraha led by Gandhi. [8] In 1921 he became the secretary of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee. In October 1922 he started another Gujarati monthly, Yugadharm. He was imprisoned by the British from April 1923 to March 1924. [3] From 1924 to 1928, he was the editor of Hindustan, a Gujarati daily ...
Gandhi in 1918, at the time of the Kheda and Champaran Satyagrahas Gandhi's first major achievement came in 1917 with the Champaran agitation in Bihar . The Champaran agitation pitted the local peasantry against largely Anglo-Indian plantation owners who were backed by the local administration.