A police report from Chauri Chaura in 1922 describes a crowd setting fire to a police station after confrontation with officers. Soon afterwards Gandhi ende...
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A police report from Chauri Chaura in 1922 describes a crowd setting fire to a police station after confrontation with officers. Soon afterwards Gandhi ended the non-cooperation campaign. Muslim volunteers in one district felt that they had made sacrifices for a movement that was stopped without consulting them. This incident is used in a study of changing relations between Congress and Muslim political movements.
(a) Identify the Congress leader who withdrew the campaign. [1]
(b) Explain two effects of the withdrawal on Muslim political opinion. [4]
Answer Details
(a) Mahatma Gandhi [1] (b) Any two explained: Muslim activists felt abandoned after supporting non-cooperation and Khilafat [2]; confidence in Congress as a partner declined [2]; Muslims became more likely to favour separate political organisation [2]; it exposed differences between religious Muslim aims and Congress methods [2].
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