Indian independence · TURNING POINT ·
Chauri Chaura incident (1922)
On the Indian independence map as “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.
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- Non-cooperation movement (chapter 7 of Indian independence)
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- Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
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