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Gandhiji started the Satyagraha movement in 1919 in protest against the

  1. enactment of Rowlatt Act

  2. Champaran wrongs

  3. Simon Commission

  4. colonial exploitation of India

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Gandhiji launched his first nationwide satyagraha in 1919 against the Rowlatt Act, which allowed detention without trial and violated civil liberties. This marked the beginning of Gandhi's mass movement strategy. Champaran (1917) was his earlier satyagraha but was regional; the Simon Commission came later in 1928.

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