Write a brief note on the Rowlatt Act.

● The Rowlatt Committee was a Sedition Committee appointed in the year 1918.

● It was appointed by the British Indian Government with Mr.Justice Rowlatt.

● He was an English judge and the president of this committee.

● The Rowlatt Committee had introduced the Rowlatt Act which was also called the Black Act.

● It had a huge impact on the political situation of India.

● The Act gave the Viceroy’s government powers to apply sedition by silencing the press, detaining the political activists without any trial, and arresting without providing a warrant.

● In protest, a nationwide cessation of work was called. This marked the beginning of widespread and popular discontent.

● This led to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar, Punjab on 13 April 1919.