Non-Cooperation Movement focussed on denying all the facilities, jobs, titles and products provided by the British government in India. Their main motive is to not to cooperate with the British government anymore.
Gandhiji decided to launch the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920 due to the following reasons –
- In September 1920, Mahatma Gandhi at the Calcutta session of the Congress tried to persuade other leaders that the time has come to launch the Non-Cooperation Movement so that they could get the support for Khilafat and for Swaraj.
- Gandhiji believed that the British government was able to establish their rule in India because of the cooperation by them. The time when Indians refuse to cooperate, British rule in India will come to an end, and that will be the beginning of the Swaraj. He mentioned this in his famous book Hind Swaraj (1909).
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As Mahatma Gandhi realised that it was due to the cooperation of the Indians that British rule continued in India. So he decided to launch the Non-Cooperation movement which reaches its destination in stages. The development which led to the launching of the Non-cooperation Movement in 1920 was as follows:
- The first task was to give up all the titles given to them by the British government and to boycott civil services, army, police, courts and legislative councils, schools, and foreign goods. If the government try to suppress them, then they will launch the Civil disobedience campaign.
- Mahatma Gandhi and Shaukat Ali travelled to many places throughout the summer of 1920 to gain support for the movement.
- People were reluctant to accept this and were not ready to boycott the council elections which was planned to hold in November 1920, and there was also the fear that the movement might end up in violence. But later, they negotiated at the Congress session at Nagpur in December 1920, and the Non-Cooperation movement was launched.
