what was rowlatt act
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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 21 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.
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•Rowlatt act was passed in March, 1919.
•Due to growing violence / upsurge in the country, this act was passed.
•According to this act, any person can be jailed without any trial and without any warrant.
•As a result Gandhi started Satyagraha and later in 1919 led a movement called NON-COOPERATION MOVEMENT.
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