Bulletin points about Nationalism in India. I wanted by handwritten for two pages. If your answer is question properly I will mark you as brain list and also should be suitable answer.
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The Nationalism in India means a change in peoples understanding of their identity and sense of
belonging. The growth of modern nationalism is intimately connected to the anti-colonial movement.
People began discovering their unity in the process of their struggle with colonialism.
1. The Satyagraha :
(i) It emphasised the power of truth and the need to search for truth.
(ii) Mahatma Gandhi successfully organized Satyagraha movement in various places—
(i) 1916 Champaran in Bihar to inspire the peasants to struggle against the oppressive
plantation system.
(ii) 1917—Kheda district of Gujrat affected crop failure and a plague epidemic.
(iii) 1918—Ahmedabad—Cotton mill workers.
2. The Rowlat Act : • 1919, Gandhiji decided to launch a nationwide Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act. • This act focusses on the Govt Powers to repress political activities. • Mahatma Gandhi wanted non-violence civil disobedience against this act. • Rallies were organized in various cities. • Workers went on strikes. • Shops closed down. • Communication system disrupted. • Local leaders were picked up from Amritsar and the police in Amritsar fired upon a peaceful
procession. • Martial law was imposed. • Jalianwalla Bagh incident took place.
3. Non Cooperation Movement : • Famous book Hind Swaraj (1909) • British rule was established in India with the cooperation of Indians. • Indians refused to cooperate, British rule in India would collapse within a year, and swaraj
would come.
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• Non–Cooperation movements begins a boycott of civil services, army, police, courts and
legislative councils, schools, and foreign goods. • A civil campaign disobedience would be launched. • A compromise was worked–out and the non-cooperation programme was adopted in
December 1920 at Nagpur Congress session.
4. Khilafat Movement (1921) : With the defeat of ottoman Turkey for defending khalifa’s
temporal powers.
(1) The Movement in the Towns : • The movement started with middle class social groups in the cities. • Thousands of students left schools run by the Govt., Teachers/Principals/H.M. resigned. • The Council election were boycott in most of provinces except Madras. • Foreign goods were boy cott, liquor shops picketed, foreign cloths burnt in huge bonfires. • Traders refused to trade foreign goods or finance foreign trade. • People weaved only Indian clothes, handlooms. • At last, the movement in the towns gradually slowed down and students back to government
schools and lawyers joined back work in the courts.
(2) Rebellion in the countryside : • The non-cooperation movement spread to the countryside. • The movement was against Talukdars1
and ‘landlords’. • Peasants were ‘begar’ and work at landlords without any payment. • The peasants’ movements demanded reduction of revenue, abolition of ‘begar’ and social
boycott. . • 1920, Jawahar Lal Nehru Visits Villages in Awadh and trying to understand their
grievance. • In October, Awadh Kisan Sabha was set-up headed by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru and Baba
Ram Chandra. • After one month, more than 300 branches had been setup in the villages. • They were unhappy and the houses of Talukdars’ and merchants were attacked, bazars
were looted and grainhoards were taken–over. • January 6, 1921 the police in United Provinces fired at peasants near the Rae–Bareli. • Tribal peasants interpreted the message of Mahatma Gandhi and the idea of Swaraj.
(3) Swaraj in the Plantation : • Plantation workers in Assam, freedom meant the right to move freely in and out of the
confined space in which they were closed.
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• Under the Inland Emigration Act of 1859, Plantation workers were not Permitted to leave
the Tea gardens without permission. • When they heard of the Non-Cooperation movement, thousands of workers defied the
authorities, left the plantations and headed home. • They were demanding Swatantra Bharat.