Modern Indian History

Khilafat and the Non-Cooperation Movement 1920-22

• Khilafat committee 1919, Ali brothers, Maulana Azad, Hakim Ajmal Khan; Gandhi's alliance with Khilafat and Hindu-Muslim unity
• Calcutta and nagpur 1920
• Surrender of titles, boycott of courts, councils, schools and foreign cloth, national schools, panchayats, khadi, Tilak Swaraj Fund; civil disobedience and non-payment of taxes reserved for a later stage if repression continued
• Students, lawyers, Prince of Wales boycott November 1921, Ali brothers arrested, Moplah and Akali strands, government repression
• Chauri Chaura 5 February 1922, Bardoli resolution 12 February withdraws the movement, Gandhi's trial before Broomfield; Madan Mohan Malaviya and others defended the Chauri Chaura accused
• Why Gandhi withdrew, what the movement achieved: mass base, Congress as organisation, fear removed