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The Gandhian Era & Mass Struggle

India · 1921Non-Cooperation at its height — Gandhi's first major nationwide mass movement

The high tide of the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat movements — a major all-India mass agitation under Gandhi, marked by boycotts, swadeshi and the Prince of Wales hartal. Meanwhile dyarchy began under the Government of India Act 1919, the Chamber of Princes was inaugurated, and the Census marked the demographic 'Great Divide.'

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Key figures

Mahatma Gandhi — led the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat-linked mass movement and the khadi/Tilak Swaraj Fund driveLord Reading (Rufus Isaacs) — Viceroy from 1921, confronting non-cooperationC.R. Das (Deshbandhu) — elected Ahmedabad Congress President for 1921 but imprisoned before presidingHakim Ajmal Khan — presided over the Ahmedabad Congress session in December 1921 in Das's absenceMohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali (Ali Brothers) — Khilafat leaders arrested in 1921Rabindranath Tagore — founded Visva-Bharati at Santiniketan in 1921

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