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How did Gandhiji transformsd Nationalist movement into amass movement?
After arriving in India, Mahatma Gandhi successfully organized Satyagraha movements in various places. In 1916, he went to Chamaparan in Bihar to inspire peasants to struggle against oppressive plantation system. Then in 1917, a struggle was organized to support peasants of Kheda district in Gujarat, affected by crop failure and a plague epidemic. In 1918, he went to Ahmadabad to organize a movement amongst the cotton mill workers. Gandhiji converted national movement to mass movement by taking up issues that affect the masses like the salt law, Khilafat issue, Rowlatt act etc.


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