Gandhi's first satyagraha in India. He supported indigo farmers in Bihar who were forced to grow indigo on part of their land.
A mill workers' dispute in Ahmedabad, where Gandhi fasted, and a farmers' revenue protest in Kheda, where Vallabhbhai Patel emerged as a leader.
On 13 April 1919, General Dyer's troops fired on an unarmed crowd in Amritsar. The massacre followed protests against the Rowlatt Act.
Indians boycotted British courts, schools and foreign cloth. The movement was joined with the Khilafat Movement.
After a mob burned a police station in Chauri Chaura, killing 22 policemen, Gandhi called off the Non-Cooperation Movement.
Gandhi walked about 385 km from Sabarmati to Dandi in Gujarat and broke the salt law, starting the Civil Disobedience Movement.
After Gandhi's fast against separate electorates for the Depressed Classes, an agreement with Ambedkar reserved seats within the general electorate.
Launched on 8 August 1942 at Bombay with the call "Do or Die". Congress leaders were arrested the next morning.
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