Learning Objectives To acquaint ourselves with Gandhian phase of India’s struggle for independence. Gandhi’s policy of ahimsa and satyagraha tried and tested for mobilisation of the masses in India. Non-violent struggles in Champaran and against the Rowlatt Act. The Non-Cooperation Movement and its fallout.
Emergence of radicals and revolutionaries and their part in the freedom movement. Launch of Civil Disobedience Movement. Issue of separate electorate and the signing of Poona Pact. First Congress Ministries in the provinces and circumstances leading to the launch of Quit India Movement.
Communalism leading to partition of sub-continent into India and Pakistan.