Lesson 6: The First World War and Non-Cooperation

Core Concepts: Socio-economic impacts of WWI on India; the concept of Satyagraha; the Rowlatt Act and the tragedy of Jallianwala Bagh; the Khilafat Movement.

Lesson 7: Differing Strands Within the Movement

Core Concepts: The launch of the Non-Cooperation Movement (1921); its varied impact in towns, the countryside (Baba Ramchandra’s peasant movement), and tribal areas (Alluri Sitaram Raju in Andhra Pradesh).

Lesson 8: Towards Civil Disobedience

Core Concepts: The Simon Commission and its boycott; the Lahore Session of Congress (1929) and the demand for Purna Swaraj (Complete Independence); the Salt March (Dandi March) and the launch of Civil Disobedience.

Lesson 9: The Limits of Civil Disobedience & The Sense of Collective Belonging

Core Concepts: The participation of different social groups (business classes, industrial workers, women, and Dalits); the ****a Pact (1932); the creation of a national identity through cultural symbols (the Bharat Mata icon, folklore, and the reinterpretation of hi

story).