Introduction Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good -Mahatma Gandhi The Non-Cooperation Movement was pitched in under leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress from September 1920 to February 1922, marking a new awakening in the Indian Independence Movement. Gandhiji realised , after a series of events, including the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, that there was no chance of receiving fair treatment from the British, so he plan

Indian society represented a conflicting position of women vacillating between patriarchal and matriarchal extremes. While Sati - the barbarous practise that denied woman life on its own, tying her to the innate presence of her husband even in his life after death - dominated the core of Hinduism. On the other hand emphasis was placed on female goddesses like Laxmi, Shakti and Sati to narrate the stories of courage sacrifice and compassion.The Hindu women became an ideal symb