Indian Independence Movement - The Non-cooperation Movements

The Non-cooperation Movements

Main articles: Mohandas Gandhi and Non-cooperation movement

The independence movement as late as 1918 was an elitist movement far removed from the masses of India, focusing essentially on a unified commerce-oriented territory and hardly a call for a united nation. Gandhi changed all that and made it a mass movement.

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