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2 unusual facts about Non-cooperation movement


Non-cooperation movement

Mahatma Gandhi had shown a similar movement in South Africa and in 1917-18 in Champaran, Bihar and Kheda, Gujarat that the only way to earn the respect and attention of British officials was to actively resist government activities through civil disobedience.

Now in Champaran and Kheda in 1918 he led impoverished farmers, mired in social evils like unhygienic conditions, domestic violence, discrimination, oppression of women and untouchability.


Godabarish Mishra

He participated in the non-cooperation movement of 1921 and worked as an editor of The Samaja (started by Gopabandhu Das) for 2 years.

Sindhura Lakshmana

During the time when Mahatma Gandhi's Non-cooperation movement engulfed the whole of India, Lakshmana started his own struggle against British by forming a band of five like minded men and started looting the tax money collected by the government treasury and distributing it among the populace.


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