The non-cooperation movement was a political campaign launched on 4 September 1920 by Mahatma Gandhi to have Indians revoke their cooperation from the British government, with the aim of persuading them to grant self-governance.[1][2][3]
This came as result of the Indian National Congress (INC) withdrawing its support for British reforms following the Rowlatt Act of 18 March 1919 – which suspended the rights of political prisoners in sedition trials,[4] and was seen as a "political awakening" by Indians and as a "threat" by the British[5]—which led to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 13 April 1919.[4][6]
The movement was one of Gandhi's first organized acts of large-scale satyagraha.[7] Gandhi's planning of the non-cooperation movement included persuading all Indians to withdraw their labour from any activity that "sustained the Briti
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