Lord Chelmsford

Lord Chelmsford : The Rowlatt Act was passed in 1919. Under this Act of Government armed itself with unlimited rights, even to detain a person and arrest him without producing him before a court. To oppose the Rowlatt Act, Mahatma Gandhi introduced the unique weapon of Satyagraha, but he was imprisoned on April 6, 1919. The Jalianwala Bagh tragedy took place on April 13, 1919. The Khilafat Movement, Non cooperation Movement and the Third Afghan War took place.