Mahatma Gandhi founded the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920.
Mahatma Gandhi led the unsuccessful noncooperation movement, which sought to persuade the British government of India to grant India swaraj, or self-rule. It was among Gandhi's first planned large-scale acts of civil disobedience (satyagraha)
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