Name: Yaduvendra Singh, Preeti Devi, Kuldeep Singh, Surjeet Singh & Sanjay Singh
Country: India

Year: 2026
Volume: Volume-11, Issue-1, January-June 2026
Page Number: 252-256
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19496381

ABSTRACT
The Non-Cooperation Movement (19201922) became a turning point in the history of the Indian freedom struggle as it turned into a mass movement with the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. Uttar Pradesh (then called United Provinces of Agra and Oudh) became a key hub of nationalist mobilization. Students were one of the most active and powerful social groups which took part in the movement. This paper looks at the role played by student revolutionaries in Uttar Pradesh during the Non-Cooperation Movement, especially their role in educational boycotts, political mobilization, and
spreading nationalist and revolutionary ideas. The paper contends that student activism not only enhanced the Gandhian non-cooperation, but also provided a way forward to revolutionary nationalism, particularly after the suspension of the movement in 1922. Basing on the secondary sources, the paper brings out the duality of students in terms of them being non-violent activists and a new breed of revolutionaries hence their importance in defining the course of the freedom struggle in India.

Keywords: Non-Cooperation Movement, Students, Uttar Pradesh, Revolutionary nationalism, Youth politics, freedom struggle.