Modern India

Rowlatt Act

English

Period1919 Exam importanceHigh

A 1919 law extending wartime emergency powers, allowing detention without trial and curtailing civil liberties — its widespread opposition directly triggered the protests that led to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and fuelled the Non-Cooperation Movement.

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