Why did mahatma gandhi feel the neeed to lauch a brad based movement in 1920s?
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1. The Rowlett Act of 1919 stated that government could detain any political prisoner without any trials for 2 years. This was to stop the political activities of nationalists.
2. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919: Under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, 90 soldiers fired the people. The only exit had been blocked. Some 369 protesters were killed and over thousands of other people injured which also included children.
Obviously after the incident, Gandhi lost any faith he had left in the British and declared it to be 'sin' to cooperate with them. One of the reasons for the movement was to avenge the injustice metted out to the victims.
3. Other reasons included economic hardships of the common man especially farmers and decline in Indian artisans because all handmade goods were being replaced by the British ones.
Khilafat movement also called as non cooperation movement .It was simply an attitude towards british that they will not cooperate with British people in any of the aspect .
Ghandi ji supported it because he wanted India to be independent.