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The Gandhian phase 1915-1939

Khilafat and the Non-Cooperation Movement 1920-22

Practise 3 PYQs

Concepts to cover

  1. Khilafat committee 1919, Ali brothers, Maulana Azad, Hakim Ajmal Khan; Gandhi's alliance with Khilafat and Hindu-Muslim unity
  2. Calcutta special session September 1920 adopts non-cooperation; Nagpur December 1920 changes Congress constitution, objective of swaraj by peaceful and legitimate means, Working Committee, linguistic provinces
  3. Surrender of titles, boycott of courts, councils, schools and foreign cloth, national schools, panchayats, khadi, Tilak Swaraj Fund; civil disobedience and non-payment of taxes reserved for a later stage if repression continued
  4. Students, lawyers, Prince of Wales boycott November 1921, Ali brothers arrested, Moplah and Akali strands, government repression
  5. Chauri Chaura 5 February 1922, Bardoli resolution 12 February withdraws the movement, Gandhi's trial before Broomfield; Madan Mohan Malaviya and others defended the Chauri Chaura accused
  6. Why Gandhi withdrew, what the movement achieved: mass base, Congress as organisation, fear removed
Where to study

India’s Struggle for Independence, 1857–1947 · Bipan Chandra and others

  • ch. 15 The Non-Cooperation Movement 1920-1922, pp. 184-196

A Brief History of Modern India · Rajiv Ahir (Spectrum)

  • ch. 16 Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan

Themes in Indian History Part III, Class XII, Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond

  • Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, pp. 1-30 (printed 286-315)
  • Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, What was the Khilafat Movement?, p. 5 (printed 290)
  • Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, 2.2 A people's leader, p. 9 (printed 294)
  • Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, 2. The Making and Unmaking of Non-cooperation, p. 5 (printed 290)
  • Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, 2.1 Knitting a popular movement, pp. 5-6 (printed 290-291)
  • Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, 2.1 Knitting a popular movement, p. 6 (printed 291)
  • Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, 2.2 A people's leader, pp. 6-7 (printed 291-292)

Tamil Nadu State Board Class XII History

  • ch. 4 Advent of Gandhi and Mass Mobilisation

Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947

  • ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, pp. 1-20 (printed 93-112)
  • ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, Khilafat agitation and the Non-Cooperation Movement, p. 9 (printed 101)
  • ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, People's initiatives, pp. 9-10 (printed 101-102)
  • ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, The happenings of 1922-1929, p. 11 (printed 103)
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