Narrate the stand point of Quaid-e-Azam on the Rowlatt Act 1919
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The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919, popularly known as the Rowlatt Act or Black Act, was a legislative council act passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in Delhi on 18 March 1919, indefinitely extending the emergency measures of preventive indefinite detention, incarceration without trial and judicial review enacted in the Defence of India Act 1915 during the First World War. It was enacted in light of a perceived threat from revolutionary nationalists to organisations of re-engaging in similar conspiracies as during the war which the Government felt the lapse of the Defence of India Act would enable
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The Rowlatt Acts were reviled by an enraged Indian populace. All nonofficial Indian members of the council (those who were not colonial government officials) voted against the acts. Mahatma Gandhi organised a popular uprising that resulted in the Amritsar Massacre (April 1919) and, later, his disobedience movement (1920–22). The acts were never put into effect.
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During World War I (1914-18), the British indian government imposed a series of repressive emergency powers to combat subversive activities. By the end of the war, the Indian people expected those measures to be relaxed and India to be given more political autonomy.The acts sparked widespread outrage and discontent among Indians, particularly in the Punjab region. Gandhi called for a one-day general strike across the country in early April.
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