INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1919 CE, Gandhiji called for a satyagraha protesting against the Rowlatt Act. The act curbed fundamental rights such as the freedom of expression and strengthened police powers.

Detailed explanation-2: -All nonofficial Indian members of the council (i.e., those who were not officials in the colonial government) voted against the acts. Mahatma Gandhi organized a protest movement that led directly to the Massacre of Amritsar (April 1919) and subsequently to his noncooperation movement (1920–22).

Detailed explanation-3: -All Indian leaders opposed the Act. While the government was adamant about passing the bill, Gandhi thought that constitutional measures would be in vain and so he proposed a nationwide hartal in protest. This was known as the Rowlatt Satyagraha and April 6th was the designated date for the hartal to begin.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gandhi first conceived satyagraha in 1906 in response to a law discriminating against Asians that was passed by the British colonial government of the Transvaal in South Africa. In 1917 the first satyagraha campaign in India was mounted in the indigo-growing district of Champaran.

Detailed explanation-5: -K Gandhi began a crusade against the Rowlatt bill and set up Satyagraha Sabha on 24th February AD 1919 at Bombay.