SATYAGRAHA AGAINST THE ROWLATT ACT (MARCH, 1919).
Mahatma Gandhi had accepted Gopal Krishna Gokhale as his political Guru (mentor) after coming back to India. Gopal Krishna in his turn had encouraged him to study the political situation of India for two years. As it has already been mentioned above, he had used satyagraha against the British in Champaran as a first instance of his familiarizing with the Indian situation and in which he had succeeded. In two other instances, at Kheda alongside the peasants against a rapacious government and at Ahmedabad alongside the mill workers against their exploitative employers, also he had used his techniques satygraha successfully. Apart from these the British Government had also assured the Indians of giving them increased measure of self-rule after the First World War was over.
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