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Main Events during the Gandhian Era

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Rowlatt Act(1919)   During the viceroyalty of Lord Chelmsford, a sedition committee was appointed by the government in 1918 with Justice Rowlatt which made certain recommendations of curb seditious activities in India. The Rowlatt Act 1919 gave unbridled powers to the government to arrest and imprisons suspects, without trial. The act caused a wave of anger among the people. Even before the3 act was passed, popular agitation began against it Gandhi ji decided to fight against this act and he gave a call for Satyagraha on April 6, 1919. He3 was arrested on April 8, 1919; this led to further intensification of the agitation in Delhi, Ahmedabad and Punjab. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (April 13, 1919) The arrest of Dr. Saifuddin   Kitchlu   and Dr. Satypal on April 10,1919 , under the Rowlatt Act in connection with Satyagraha caused serious unrest in Punjab. A public meeting was held on April 13, 1919 in a park called Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar where thousands o...
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Gwadar Port and its strategic importance

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Gwadar Port is a warm-water, deep-sea port situated on the Arabian Sea at Gwadar in Baluchistan province of Pakistan. It is located at the mouth of the Persian Gulf just outside the strategically important Strait of Hormuz. It features as the southern Pakistan hub if the $57 billion China-Pakistan economic Corridor plans. It is considered as a vital link between the Chinese One Belt, One3 Road initiative and the Maritime Silk road Project. ·          Pakistan has leased the operations of its strategic Gwadar port to a State-run Chinese firm, the China Overseas Port Holding company (COPHC) for a period of 40 years. ·          COPHC is slated to carry out all the developmental work on the port situated in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. ·          COPHC took over the operations of the port in 2013. Previously, the control of the Gwadar port was with Singapo...
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Important event During Gandhi Era

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Swaraj Party(1923): Gandhi’s decision to call off the agitation caused frustration amoang masses. His decision came in for server criticism form his colleagues like Motilal Nehru, C.R.   Das and N.C Kelkar, who organized the Swaraj Party. The foundations of the Swaraj Party were laid on Jan. 1, 1923, as the Congress Khilafat Swaraj   Party. It proposed then and alternative programme of diverting the movement form widespread civil disobedience programme to restrictive one which would encourage its member to enter into legislative councils (established under Mont-ford Reforms of 1919) by contesting elections in order ot wreck the legislature form within and to use moral pressure to compel the authority to concede to the popular demand for self-government. In the election held in 1923 the Swaraj Party captured 45 of the 145 seats. In provincial elections they secured few seats but in the Central Province they secured a clear majority. In Bengal, the Swaraj Party was th...
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