The then Viceroy of India Lord Irwin requested Gandhi to allow Simon to finish his work in India. So, the government would organised Round Table Conference to decide the fate of Indians. So, Gandhi asked Viceroy to give the promise that Dominion Status would be the issue for the Round Table Conference. But Lord Irwin refused to give promise.
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the provision was that the act will be reviewed after 10 years. So, then a new set of political reforms will come to India and for Indians. Therefore Simon Commission came to India under this provision. But it came 2 years before its scheduled time
Gandhiates or No-Changers. Because their objective was to move people and promote creative programs among the masses, they gave emphasis to education and prepared the ground for the next phase of the freedom struggle in India
In 1922, Chitranjan Das and Motilal Nehru formed the “All India Khilafat Swaraj Party” within Congress. So, their objective was to contest the coming election to enter the legislature and carry on Freedom Struggle. In 1924, Kamal Pasha abolished Caliphate in Turkey. At this time Swaraj Party came into existence and its associates were Swarajist.
In the previous post, we have read about the Montagu-Chelmsford Reform of 1919. This act increased dissatisfaction among the masses. Gandhi wrote to the Lord…
So, in this situation, the British Government once again after a gap of 10 years came back with the new India Council Act of 1919. Montagu was the Secretary of State in 1919. Chelmsford was the Viceroy of India. So, this act was called the Montagu-Chelmsford reform
main provision of this act was imprisoned without trial for a minimum of two years. This act disappointed all the Indians. So, as a reaction to it, Gandhi declared 6th April 1919 as the day of the National Strike in India. From here, Gandhi Started his political career
In 1918, the Saurashtra region faced plague. So, with the end of the plague, Mill owner of Ahmedabad Mill decided to end the Plague bonus. But workers of the Mill protested on the ground that natural plague ie disease is over. But after World War-I, the worldly plague ie inflation came into existence
dye. So, this brought down the relevancy of the Indigo cultivation. So, in this situation, European planters taking advantage of their power and position and weakness of Indian farmers started exploitation of farmers. They started demanding illegal cess means a share in the produce of Indian farmers.
Champaran Satyagraha, Ahmedabad Mill Strike, and Kheda Movement proved experimenting labs for Gandhi. He precisely observed the previous movements of the Indian Freedom Struggle. So, by taking lessons from them he came out with his own method to fight with Britisher. So, after the coming of Gandhi, the phase of the freedom struggle was the Gandhian Era.