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Excerpt from Telegraphic Correspondence Regarding the Situation in India: Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty
As, however, the matter is one of great urgency we have done our best to give a connected account in message that follows.
The first manifestation of non co Operation with Government as a political force took place about the beginning Of 1920. The spirit of nationalism in this country as else where had been greatly stimulated and intensified by the war and the pronouncements made as to the principles for which the Allies stood. It was intended by the Reforms Act of 1919 to meet the legitimate aspirations of the Indian people, and moderate and reasonable Opinion was to a certain extent satisfied thereby. An extreme section of Indian politicians rejected it as inadequate, but Opposition to it might not have assumed formidable proportions had it not' been for the operation of special causes - in particular, racial feeling, which had been engendered by the Punjab disturbances in 1919, the economic distress which resulted from the general rise in prices, the bitter resentment on the part of Muhammadans over the delay in announcing the terms of peace with Turkey and their apprehensions lest these terms should prove un favourable to Turkey. It was as a result of these causes that the doctrine of non-co - operation, which was a revival of Gandhi's Satyagraha movement of 1919, began to make rapid progress in 1920.
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