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At the Nagpur Session (1920) of the Indian national congress Gandhi linked the issue of Swaraj (Self-Government) with the Khilafat demands and adopted the non-cooperation plan to attain the twin objectives. So the non cooperation movement Khilafat movement began in January 1921 and various social groups became part of this movement with different and varying aspirations Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Various social groups participated in the movement with its own aspiration and views Students,teachers,laywers,headmasters,tr aders,merchants etc. in towns . Peasants and tribals in the villages with their own views of swaraj. Workers(e.g.plantation workers )
Participants
What Happened ?
Foreign goods were boycotted, liquor shops picketed, and foreign cloth bunt. Merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods.
In the countryside the struggles of peasants and tribals came under the label of non co-operation movement.
In Awadh peasants led by Baba Ramachandra were struggling for reduction of revenue, abolition of begar, social boycott of opressive landlords.
By october 1920 the Oudh Kisan Sabha was set up headed by Jawaharlal Nehru,Baba Ramachandra and few others.
When the non cooperation movement began, the peasant movement developed under its label but the movement was somewhat violent houses of merchants and landlords were attacked, bazaars were looted, and grain hoards were taken over.
Raju talked of the greatness of gandhiji and persuaded people to wear khadhi and give up drinking.
AT LAST
Chauri Chaura is a town near Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, known most for an event in February 1922 during the British Raj when a police station)was set on fire by a mob of angry citizens, killing 23 policemen inside. Due to this incident mahatma Gandhi called a halt to the non-cooperation movement.