Personal Political General1919 Jawaharlal works Government of India Act, Versailles Treaty.
closely with Gandhi in 1919, passed. ‘Dyarchy’ Allegedly on the basis of
Punjab on the and limited devolution Wilsonian 14 Points of
Congress enquiry team of powers to the January 1917 (which
following the Punjab provinces introduced. proclaimed right of
‘disturbances’ and Rowlatt Act passed nations to
Jallianwalla Bagh extending wartime self-determination); but
emergency provisions the peace settlement
into peacetime. divides up the colonies
‘Rowlatt Satyagraha’ of the defeated powers
Gandhi’s first all-India
campaign.
Jallianwalla Bagh
massacre
1920 Nehru ‘discovers’ the Non-Cooperation- Treaty of Sevres with
peasants in his first Khilafat movement Turkey; abolition of the
rural political begins Khilafat
campaigns
1921–2 December 6, 1921: February 5, 1922: ‘Chauri October 28, 1922:
Motilal and Jawaharlal Chaura incident’. Mussolini’s ‘March on
arrested, 1921; their February 12, 1922: Rome’: fascists seize
first imprisonment. Gandhi calls off the power in Italy
Jawaharlal briefly movement. Arrested on
released, then March 10
re-arrested on a new
charge. Motilal released
in 1922, Jawaharlal on
January 31, 1923
1923–6 April 1923–1926: 1924–26: ‘Council
Jawaharlal chairman entry’ by the Swarajists
of the Allahabad led by Motilal Nehru and
Municipal Board CR Das
1926–7 March 1926–end 1927: Workers and Peasants’ 1927 onwards:
sojourn in Europe Parties founded in slowdown in world
during Kamala Bengal, Punjab, Bombay agrarian prices
Nehru’s treatment for and the United
tuberculosis in Provinces: Communist
Switzerland. Party front
February 1927: Nehru organisations
attends Congress of
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