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Explain briefly what is rowlatt act. In 5 points


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Answer 1

Rowlatt Acts, (February 1919), legislation passed by the Imperial Legislative Council, the legislature of British India. The acts allowed certain political cases to be tried without juries and permitted internment of suspects without trial. Their object was to replace the repressive provisions of the wartime Defence of India Act (1915) by a permanent law. They were based on the report of Justice S.A.T. Rowlatt’s committee of 1918.

Answer 2

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WHAT IS ROWLATT ACT..???

• The Rowlatt Act gave the British government enormous powers to repress political activities, and allowed imprisonment of political prisoners without trial for two years.

• Mahatma Gandhi now decided to launch a nation wide Satyagraha. Rallies were organised in various cities , workers went on strike in railway workshops and shops were closed down.

• On 13 april, 1919 in Amritsar, a group of people was fired in enclosed ground of Jallianwalla Bagh, by the orders of General Dyer. Hundreds of innocent people were killed. The agitated Indian minds that resulted in strikes , clashes with the police and attacks on government buildings.

• Seeing violence spread, Mahatma Gandhi immediately called off the movement and decided to launch a more broad based movement in India.

• To unite Hindus and Muslims, Gandhi ji decided to start Non - Cooperation Movement in support of Khilafat as well as for swaraj , at Calcutta session of the congress in September, 1920.

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