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Source 4 “It was he who got bedakhli stopped in Pratapgarh” The following is an extract from a CID report on the kisan movement in Allahabad district, January 1921: The currency which Mr. Gandhi’s name has acquiredevenintheremotestvillagesisastonishing.  Activity No one seems to know quite who or what he is, but Read Source 4. it is an accepted fact that what he says is so, and what he orders must be done. He is a Mahatma or According to this report, sadhu, a Pundit, a Brahmin who lives at Allahabad, how did people view Mahatma Gandhi? Why even a deota … the real power of his name is to do you think they felt be traced back to the idea that it was he who got that he was opposed to bedakhli [illegal eviction] stopped in Pratapgarh … as a general rule, Gandhi is not thought of as zamindars but not to the being antagonistic to Government, but only to the government? Why do zamindars … We are for Gandhiji and the Sarkar. you think they were in favour of Gandhiji? The happenings of 1922–1929 Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, was against violent movements. He abruptly called off the Non-Cooperation Movement when in February 1922, a crowd of peasants set fire to a police station in Chauri Chaura. Twenty- two policemen were killed on that day. The peasants were provoked because the police had fired on their peaceful demonstration. Once the Non-Cooperation movement was over, Gandhiji’s followers stressed that the Congress must undertake constructive work in the rural areas. Other leaders such as Chitta Ranjan Das and Motilal Nehru argued that the party should fight elections to the councils and enter them in order to influence government policies. Through sincere social work in villages in the mid-1920s, the Gandhians were able to extend their support base. This proved to be very useful in launching the Civil Disobedience movement in 1930. Two important developments of the mid-1920s were the formation of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Fig. 9 – Chitta Ranjan Das a Hindu organisation, and the Communist Party of India. A major figure in the freedom These parties have held very different ideas about the kind movement, Das was a lawyer of country India should be. Find out about their ideas with from East Bengal. He was the help of your teacher. The revolutionary nationalist especially active in the Bhagat Singh too was active in this period. Non-Cooperation Movement. THE MAKING OF THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT: 1870s –1947 103 Reprint 2024-25