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Non-cooperation movement - Coggle Diagram

- - - - First steps
        
        Thousands of students left government-controlled schools and colleges
        
        Headmasters and teachers resigned
        
        Lawyers gave up their legal practices
        
        Council elections boycotted in all states (except Madras)
        
        Foreign shops were boycotted
        
        Liquor shops were picketed
        
        Foreign cloth was burnt in huge bonfires
        
        People discarded foreign clothes and wore only clothes made in India
      - Reasons for failure
        
        Khadi cloth too expensive and poor were not able to afford it
        
        No alternative institutions to British ones set up
    - - Awadh
        
        Peasants led by Baba Ramchandra - Fijian indentured labourer
        
        Movement against talukdars and landlords who demanded high rents and other cesses, begar, and regular eviction from their land
        
        Movement demanded reduction of revenue, abolition of begar, social boycott of oppressive landlords, nai-dhobi bandhs also organized to deprive landlords of barbers and washermen
        
        June 1920 - Nehru went to villages collecting peasants' grievances, and Oudh Kisan Sabha was set up by Nehru, Baba, and few others: over 300 branches established in one year
        
        1921 actions - houses of talukdars and merchants attacked, bazaars looted, grain hoards taken over, name of Mahatma used to sanction all actions
      - Gudem hills of Andhra Pradesh
        
        Mutant guerrilla movement spread in early 1920s as Government had closed large forests areas which the tribal people needed
        
        Initiator of revolt was Alluri Sitaram Raju (executed in 1924) - He claimed he could make correct astrological predictions and heal people, and survive bullet wounds, leading people to think he was incarnation of God
  - - - In February 1922, Gandhi withdrew the Non-cooperation Movement as movement was turning violent and satyagrahis needed to be properly trained
      - Some Congress members wanted to participate in the elections to the provincial councils as set up by the Government of India Act 1919
      - They said it was important to oppose British policies within the councils, argue for reforms, and prove that these councils were not fully democratic
      - C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru formed Swaraj Party within the Congress to argue for a return to council politics
      - Younger leaders like Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose pressed for more radical mass agitation and full independence
    - - The Great Depression
        
        Agricultural prices fell from 1926 and collapsed after 1930
        
        As the demand for agricultural goods fell and exports declined, peasants found it difficult to sell their harvests and pay revenue
        
        By 1930, the countryside was in turmoil
      - Simon Commission
        
        What was it
        
        New Tory government in Britain set up a Statutory Commission under Sir John Simon
        
        Set up in response to the nationalist movements
        
        Role was to look into functioning of constitutional system in India and suggest changes
        
        No Indian member included - all British
        
        Indian reactions
        
        Greeted with slogan 'Go Back Simon' upon its arrival in 1928. Both Congress and Muslim League participated in the demonstrations
        
        Declared 'Purna Swaraj' or Complete Independence and 26 January 1930 was declared as Republic Day