Place · protest & violence site · India
Chauri Chaura
A small town in Gorakhpur district where, in February 1922, a crowd of non-cooperation volunteers fired on by police turned on the outnumbered constables and burned the station with twenty-two of them inside.
- Function
- Social reform & movement
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 26.642, 83.524
Worth knowing
Gandhi called off the entire Non-Cooperation Movement within days, at the height of its success and against the judgement of almost every other leader, on the ground that the country was not ready for non-violent mass action. Nineteen of the accused were hanged. The decision split the Congress and put him in prison for sedition a month later.
Connections (1)
- CampaignMohandās Karamchand Gandhi
Gandhi called off Non-Cooperation within days of Chauri Chaura, at the height of its success, against the judgement of Nehru, Bose, Lajpat Rai and almost everyone else, on the ground that a country that would burn twenty-two policemen was not ready for non-violent mass action. He then fasted for five days. Nineteen men were hanged anyway. The decision split the Congress, and the argument about whether he was right has never closed.
On these journeys
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi — Porbandar to Rajghat (1869–1948)
- The mass movements — Champaran to Quit India
Sources
Wikipedia, “Chauri Chaura incident”. Shahid Amin, Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922–1992 (1995); the trial records in the National Archives of India.
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