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The people of the district did not forget the 19 persons tried and executed after the Chauri Chaura incident. In 1971, they formed an association named Chauri Chaura Shaheed Smarak Samiti. In 1973, this Samiti constructed near the lake at Chauri Chaura a 12.2-metre-tall (40 ft) triangular minaret on each side of which a figure is depicted ...
Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992 is a 1995 book by Shahid Amin. [1] A Professor of History at Delhi University , Amin was a Visiting Fellow at Stanford , Princeton , and Berlin . He also authored Sugarcane and Sugar in Gorakhpur (1984).
In 1922, the Chauri Chaura incident took place in the town when protesters set fire to a police station and killed at least 22 policemen in retaliation for the police firing on several protesters who had taken part in the non-cooperation movement as part of the Indian freedom struggle. This incident is depicted in the movie Gandhi.
The non-cooperation movement was withdrawn after the Chauri Chaura incident. Although he had stopped the national revolt single-handedly, on 12 February 1922, Mahatma Gandhi was arrested. On 18 March 1922, he was imprisoned for six years for publishing seditious materials.
They blockaded the village and prevented the British officers from collecting tax. In the confrontation that followed, two British officers were killed by the villagers and the criminal case registered culminated in the hanging of four freedom fighters.This incidence is also called chauri chaura of Karnataka. [4]
Chauri Chaura [ edit ] The Swaraj Party was formed on 1 January 1923 by Indian politicians and members of the Indian National Congress who had opposed Mahatma 's suspension of all civil resistance on 12 February 1922 in response to the Chauri Chaura tragedy , where policemen were killed by a mob of protestors.
Third anti-violence fast: for atonement for violence done in Chauri Chaura incident. [citation needed] 8 1924 (18 Sep – 8 Oct) 21 days Delhi: First Hindu-Muslim unity fast Interest of Hindu-Muslim unity after the first non-cooperation movement: Ended fast while listening to the Quran and Gita being read. [10] 9 1925 (24 Nov – 1 Dec) 7 days
Chauri-Chaura is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Chauri-Chaura in the Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Chauri-Chaura is one of five assembly constituencies in the Bansgaon Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 326 amongst 403 constituencies.