Rowlatt Act -Reasons, circumstances, consequences and Gandhi’s role.
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What circumstances led to enactment of the Rowlatt Act 1919? Discuss its consequences & the role played by gandhi's rowlatt satyagraha in this regard. Relevant for upsc as 2019 marked as 100th year (century) commemoration of Rowlatt act & Jallianwala bagh massacre. Syllabus area: The Freedom Struggle – its various stages and important contributors /contributions from different parts of the country. The anarchical & revolutionary crimes act of 1919, popularly known as Rowlatt act was a legislative act passed by imperial legislative council indefinitely extending the emergency measures of preventive detention, incarceration without trial and judicial review enacted in defence of India act 1916 during the first world war. Circumstances that led to enactment of Rowlatt act. Rising nationalism: among Indians Fueling up patriotism: through growth of press, both vernacular and…