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Chronology / Time Line
Years of Satyagrahas of Mahatma
Gandhi
(Passive Resistance)
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|
Place |
Year |
Cause |
|
Johannesburg
(South Africa) |
1906 |
To protest against the
unfair Asiatic Registration Bill of 1906. |
|
|
1908 |
To protest against the
discriminatory law requiring Asians to apply for registration by burning
2000 official certificates of domicile at a public meeting and courting
jail. |
|
Transvaal area
(South Africa) |
1913 |
March from NewCastle to
Transvaal.
To protest against the
imposition of £ 3
Tax and the passing of the Immigration Bill adversely affecting the status
of married Indian women. |
|
Virangam |
1914 |
To
seek removal of customs hardships inflicted on third-class railways
passengers. |
|
Champaran |
1917 |
To
remove the hardships of indigo workers in Champaran exploited by the
European planters. |
|
Ahmedabad |
1918 |
To
end the deadlock between the mill owners and labourers who were overworked
and under paid. |
|
Kheda |
1918 |
To
demand relief for famine-stricken peasants of Kheda regarding the revenue
dues to be paid to the Government. |
|
India |
1919 |
The
first mass Satyagraha against the unjust Rowlatt Bill curbing the freedom
of the Press. |
|
India |
1920 |
Nonviolent non-co-operation movement to attain Swaraj and to implement
Gandhiji's 7 point programme including Hindu-Muslim unity and removal of
untouchability by surrendering titles and honorary posts awarded by the
Government, boycotting Government schools, colleges, Law Courts, and
legislatures, by starting national schools and by using Khadi. |
|
Vykom |
1924 |
To
demand the entry of the untouchables on public roads. |
|
Borsad |
1923-24 |
To
protest against unfair increment in the land revenues imposed on the
people by settlement-revision officers. |
|
Dandi and All-India |
March 12 1930 |
To
protest against the unjust Salt law by undertaking a march from Ahmedabad
to Dandi and to demand self-rule by boycotting of foreign cloth, picketing
liquor shops and taking a pledge for fighting for Swaraj. |
|
India |
Dec. 31, 1931 |
Civil Disobedience to achieve self-rule by breaking laws and ordinances
and continuing the earlier programme of boycotting and picketing. |
|
Rajkot |
1939 |
To
protest against the breach of the charter of Liberty of the people by the
Local ruler instigated by the British Resident in Rajkot. |
|
All India |
October 1940 |
To
protest against India's participation in World War II and to support
freedom of propagating nonviolence as a substitute for war. |
|
|
August 9, 1942
|
Quit
India movement for complete freedom for India and to demand immediate
abdication of the British rule with a determination to 'Do or Die'. |
