Rowlatt Act of 1919
In 1914, Gandhi returned to India and lived a life of abstinence and spirituality on the periphery of Indian politics. Then in 1919 came the Rowlatt Act and people protested against it and Jallianwalah bagh Massacre happed. He supported Britain in the First World War but in 1919 launched a new satyagraha in protest of Britain’s mandatory military draft of Indians. Hundreds of thousands answered his call to protest, and by 1920 he was leader of the Indian movement for independence.
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