Why did plantation workers of Assam in the non cooperation movement
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The plantation workers in Assam had their own understanding of Mahatma Gandhi and notion of Swaraj.
For plantation workers in Assam, freedom meant the right to more freely in and out of the confined space in which they were enclosed.
Swaraj meant relating a link with the village from which they had come.
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 defined the authorities, left plantations and needed home.
They believed that Gandhi Raj was coming and everyone would be given land in their own village
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- UNDER the Inland Emigration Act of 1859, plantation workers were not permitted to leave the tea gardens without permission.
- When plantation workers heared of the Non-Cooperation Movement, thousands of workers defied the authorities.
- They left the plantations and headed home..
- Role of plantation workers of Assam:
- For plantation workers in Assam, freedom meant the right to move freely in and out of the confined space in which they were enclosed.
- .They however, never reached their homes due to a railway and steamer strike.
- They were caught by the police and brutally beaten up.
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