1. The movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920.
2. It began after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (1919) and the government’s repressive Rowlatt Act, which angered Indians.
3. Another important reason was the Khilafat issue, where Indian Muslims were upset by the treatment of the Turkish Sultan after World War I.
4. Gandhi convinced the Congress that Indians should not cooperate with the British government until justice was done.
5. It was a nationwide mass movement where Indians refused to cooperate with the British peacefully.
6. Gandhi said that the British could rule India only because Indians supported them.
7. So he asked people to withdraw that support in a non-violent manner.
8 . People and workers boycott the government schools, colleges, courts, and foreign goods .
9. Resignation from government jobs .
10. Refusal to pay some taxes.
11. Promotion of swadeshi, use of khadi, and village industries . Students joined national schools; lawyers like C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru left their practice.
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