Chapter 2 : Nationalism in India
1915 : Gandhiji returns to India
1917 : Gandhiji went to Champaran Bihar
1917 : Kheda Satyagraha in Gujarat
1918 : Ahmedabad mill Strike
1918 -1919 and 1920-21 : There is a severe food scarcity as a result of many Indian regions’
crops failing.
1919 : Rowlatt Act
13th April 1919 : JallianwalaBagh massacre
1919 : Khilafat committee was formed in Bombay
1920 : In summer of 1920 Gandhiji and Shawkat Ali to and extensively throughout the India
1920(Nagpur Session): Non cooperation programme was adopted by the National Congress
1909 : Gandhiji wrote Hind Swaraj
1920(June) : Jawaharlal Nehru began going around the villages in awadh
6th January 1921 : The police in the united provinces fired at the peasants near Rae Bareli
January 1921 : The non cooperation Khilafat movement began
1921 census : According to the census, famines and other disasters caused the deaths of 12 to
13 million people.
1921 : Houses of talukdar and merchants were attacked
1921 : Gandhiji had designed the Swaraj flag
February 1922 : Gandhi decided to withdraw the non cooperation movement
1924 : Ram Raju was captured and executed
1926-1930 : Agricultural prices began to fall from 1926 and collapsed after 1930
1927 : The establishment of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries
1928 : Simon Commission arrived in India
1928 : All party conference
October 1929 : Lord Irwin offered Dominion status
December 1929 : PurnaSwaraj was demanded
26 January 1930 : Independence day was celebrated for the first time
6th April 1930 : Salt Satyagraha was started
April 1930 : Angry crowds demonstrated in the streets of Peshawar
1930 : Muhammad Iqbal stepped down as Muslim League president.
5th March 1931 : Gandhi Irwin pact
December 1931 : The political leaders of Indian freedom struggle was released from jail
September 1932 : Poona pact
1930 and 1932 : There was a strike by railway workers in 1930 and dockworkers in 1932.
1934 : By 1934 the civil disobedience movement lost its momentum
14th July 1942 : The Indian National Congress endorsed the historic Quit India Resolution.