In the year ____, the British government passed the Rowlatt Act.

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In the year 1919, the British government passed the Rowlatt Act.
The Rowlatt Act provided the government broad authority to suppress political activity and authorised the two-year imprisonment of political prisoners without charge or trial. Mahatma Gandhi referred to the Rowlatt Act as unjust and expressed intense concern about its enactment. The public denigrated the Act as the ‘Black Act’, and Indians protested against it. Numerous cities held protests, and shops, workshops, and railroad workers went on strike. In 1919, Gandhi decided to start a statewide satyagraha in opposition to the planned Rowlatt Act.

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