Question

British rule in India would have collapsed if Indians had not cooperated. How did this statement help in starting a mass movement in India against the British rule?

Answer 1

Hint: The British Raj was the name given to the time of British rule over the Indian subcontinent, which lasted from 1858 to 1947. When the East India Company's rule was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria in 1858, the system of governance was established.

Complete answer:
British rule in India was founded with the cooperation of Indians, according to Mahatma Gandhi, and if they had refused to cooperate, British rule in India would have collapsed within a year. He suggested that the revolution take place in stages. It should start with the Indians relinquishing titles that the government had bestowed on them. A civil service, army, police, courts and legislative assemblies, schools, and international products boycott would demonstrate their opposition to the British Empire.

If the government used repression, Mahatma Gandhi believed a full-fledged civil disobedience movement would be initiated. As a result, Gandhi Ji decided to launch a mass movement known as the Non Cooperation Khilafat movement in order to avoid this cooperation. He said that the process should be carried out in stages, beginning with the provision of all titles given by the British, such as government jobs, courts, schools, and a variety of other institutions. If the government used repression, Mahatma Gandhi believed a full-fledged civil disobedience movement would be initiated.

Gandhiji first proposed the concept of non-cooperation in his book Hind Swaraj, in which he stated that the British had developed their rule in India with the Indians' cooperation, and that it would only collapse if that cooperation was removed.

Note: The first all-India agitation against British rule was the combined Khilafat Non-Cooperation campaign. It saw unparalleled levels of Hindu-Muslim collaboration, and it cemented Gandhi's nonviolent agitation tactic (satyagraha) at the heart of India's nationalist movement.