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title: "Rowlatt Satyagraha: 1919 Anti-Rowlatt Act Protest"
description: "The Rowlatt Satyagraha was Gandhi's first all-India campaign in 1919, opposing the Rowlatt Act's detention-without-trial powers. Key UPSC modern-history topic."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- The Rowlatt Satyagraha was Mahatma Gandhi's nationwide nonviolent protest in 1919 against the Rowlatt Act, marking his first all-India political campaign.
- Why was the Rowlatt Satyagraha launched?
- Why did Gandhi call off the Rowlatt Satyagraha?
- How is the Rowlatt Satyagraha connected to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
- How did the Rowlatt Satyagraha differ from the Non-Cooperation Movement?

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1. 30 March 1919

   He initially fixed the date for but later shifted it to 6 April; owing to confused communication, Delhi observed the hartal on the original 30 March date, w…

2. 10 April 1919

   In Amritsar, the arrest and deportation of local leaders Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr Satyapal on ignited rioting.

3. 13 April 1919

   The repression culminated on in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, where Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered troops to fire without warning on an unarmed cr…

4. 18 April 1919

   Confronted by the eruption of violence at Ahmedabad, Viramgam, and Amritsar, Gandhi concluded he had committed a "Himalayan miscalculation" in summoning mass…

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In April 1919, Mahatma Gandhi called a nationwide hartal as part of the Rowlatt Satyagraha; the resulting unrest in Amritsar preceded General Dyer's Jallianwala Bagh massacre on 13 April 1919.

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