Discuss the various forms that the Non-Cooperation Movement took in different parts of India. How did people understand Gandhiji?

Different places in the country showed different reactions, given below:

1. At Kheda in Gujarat, Patidar peasants organised nonviolent campaigns against the high land revenue demand of the British.
2. In coastal Andhra and interior Tamil Nadu, liquor shops were picketed.
3. In the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, tribals and poor peasants staged a number of “forest satyagraha”, sometimes sending their cattle into forests without paying grazing fee.
4. In Sind (now in Pakistan), Muslim traders and peasants were very enthusiastic about the Khilafat call.
5. In Bengal too, the Khilafat-Non-Cooperation alliance gave enormous communal unity and strength to the national movement.
6. In Punjab, the Akali agitation of the Sikhs sought to remove corrupt mahants – supported by the British – from their gurdwaras.

People thought of Gandhiji as a kind of messiah, as someone who could help them overcome their misery and poverty. Gandhiji wished to build class unity and not class conflict. Yet, peasants could imagine that he would help them in their fight against zamindars, and agricultural labourers believed he would provide them with the land. At times, ordinary people credited Gandhiji with their own achievement.