Why did the plantation workers participate in the Non-Cooperation Movement? Explain any three reasons.
- UNDER the Inland Emigration Act of 1859, plantation workers were not permitted to leave the tea gardens without permission.
- When plantation workers heared of the Non-Cooperation Movement, thousands of workers defied the authorities.
- They left the plantations and headed home.
- For them, freedom meant the right to move freely in and out.