Describe the major events of the Non-Cooperation Movement. Give one result of these movements.

I. Major events:
(i) Mass opposition : Students stopped going to schools and colleges run by the government. Lawyers refused to attend court. The working class went on strike in many towns and cities : according to official figures, there were 396 strikes in 1921, involving 600,000 workers and a loss of seven million workdays. The countryside was see thing with discontent too.

(ii) Expansion of Non-Cooperation Movement : Hills tribes in northern Andhra violated the forest laws. Farmers in Awadh did not pay taxes. Peasants in Kumaun refused to carry loads for colonial officials.

The protest movements were sometimes carried out in defiance of the law. Peasants, workers and others interpreted and acted upon the call to “non-cooperate” with colonial rule in ways that best suited their interests, rather than conform to the dictates laid down from above.

(iii) Calling off Non-Cooperation Movement : In February 1922, a group of peasants attacked and torched a police station in the hamlet of Chauri-Chaura, in the United Provinces several constables perished in the conflagration. This act of violence prompted Gandhiji to call off the movement altogether.