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Gandhi’s campaigns, Non-Cooperation and the Swaraj Party — one sentence each

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  • Panda Two colours in one word = two names
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Gandhi — Ashrams and First Campaigns

His four ashrams in order, the start in South Africa, and his first four campaigns in India with what marks each.

Trick 1

Gandhi’s four ashrams

➜ 1904 → 1910 → 1915 → 1917

Phoebe took Komal’s sandwich.

  1. 1Phoenix Settlement1904 — near Durban
  2. 2Tolstoy Farm1910 — near Johannesburg, with Hermann Kallenbach
  3. 3Kochrab ashramMay 1915 — Ahmedabad
  4. 4Sabarmati ashram1917 — moved here from Kochrab

South Africa — Natal Indian Congress (1894) · Indian Opinion (1903) · first satyagraha and the word “satyagraha” (1906–08) · Hind Swaraj (1909) · return to India on 9 January 1915 (now Pravasi Bharatiya Divas).

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South Africa — the start

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Durban case for Dada

Durban (1893)=Went to handle a case for Dada Abdullah, a Gujarati merchant

Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal for an ambulance corps in the Boer War — returned in 1920.

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Gandhi’s first four campaigns in India

➜ 1917 → 1918 → 1918 → 1919

Champa gave Ahmed kheer with roti.

  1. 1Champaran (Bihar)1917 — first satyagraha in India
  2. 2Ahmedabad mill strikeFeb–Mar 1918 — first hunger strike
  3. 3Kheda (Gujarat)22 March 1918 — first non-cooperation
  4. 4Rowlatt satyagraha1919 — first all-India campaign
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First campaigns — what marks each

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Champa wears an indigo sari.

Champaran (1917)=Indigo on 3/20 of the land — the tinkathia system · ended by the Champaran Agrarian Act 1918 · co-workers Rajendra Prasad, J.B. Kripalani, Mahadev Desai

Ahmed stayed hungry.

Ahmedabad mill strike (1918)=Gandhi’s first hunger strike · Anasuya Sarabhai called him in · settled at a 35% raise

Kheda farmers held back rent with Patel.

Kheda (1918)=Withhold the land revenue — India’s first non-cooperation · Vallabhbhai Patel became a follower here

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Rowlatt Act, Jallianwala and Khilafat

The events of 1919, the reactions to them and the Khilafat Committee.

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Non-Cooperation Movement

Calcutta to Bardoli in order, the five boycotts, the national institutions, the Nagpur numbers and the peasant and tribal movements.

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The Swaraj Party

Its founders, the first elected President of the Assembly and the Muddiman Committee.

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Other Currents, 1922–27

Local satyagrahas, new organisations and the Butler Committee.

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