Zusammenfassung der Ressource
1st Non-Cooperation Movement 1919/Khilafat
- Aims/Purpose
- Started for the indigo workers in Bihar/working class peasants
- 3 Main Aims
- Allow the workers in Bihar to have a
free choice of what crops they grow
- Reduce Rent
- Stop Illegal Land Seizure
- Methods
- Mass Protests
- Hartals (Strikes)
- General non-cooperation with British
- Provokes Arrest
- Gandhi's ways of gaining publicity
- Arrest/trial of himself gained a
lot of media attention
- Telegrams to Viceroy/press
- Lives with/dresses like peasants - Appeals
to majority of Indian people - the poor
- Success
- Achieved all aims
- Forces British into concessions
- Gained Indian support
- National/International recognition
of his campaign
- Khilafat Movement
- Was a Muslim movement
- That aimed to protect the Caliphs
(Muslim leaders of Ottoman empire)
- Ottoman Empire was broken up
after WW1 by France and UK
- This was seen as a direct attack
on Muslims by the British
- This caused Anti-British
feeling in India
- Gandhi backed the Muslims and linked the
Khilafat movement with non-cooperation
- Caused Hindu/Muslim Unity