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Turning point · Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948
Chauri Chaura
4 Feb 1922 — A police firing, then a crowd burns the station with 22 constables inside. Gandhi, over furious objections, halts the whole national movement: a people not yet disciplined in non-violence, he argues, cannot be trusted with it. The halt is debated to this day.
This is one scene of Chapter 5 — Non-Cooperation — The Method Argued in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.
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