Describe the spread of Non-Cooperation Movement in the countryside.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi started the non-cooperation movement. The main motive of this movement was to resist the British rule in India, by a non-violent means, also called "satyagraha". This movement gained widespread popularity and was spread across the countryside.

• There was the surrendering of titles
• Boycott of schools and colleges led by the British
•  Foreign goods were burnt, and the liquor shops were destroyed.
• People boycotted foreign clothes and initiated the use of khadi
• The peasants, the local leader and the tribals started this movement in the countryside. For example, the peasants were led by Baba Ramchandra, in Awadh. Here, the movement was not against the Britishers, but against the talukdars and landlords. They made the peasants work for days together in their fields, without paying them and were regularly evicted from their homes. This led to an outrage among the peasants, and they demanded a reduction in the revenue. 
• Jawaharlal Nehru set up the Awadh Kisan Sabha in the villages.
• As a result of this, the houses of talukdars were attacked, and the bazaars were looted.
• In the Gundam hills of Andra Pradesh, a militant guerrilla movement spread under the leadership of Raju. This movement was established to fight against unfair forest laws. 

This was a mass movement followed in the urban cities and towns, by the people who used to look up to Gandhi and his methods of agitation.

The Non-Cooperation Movement spread to the countryside. The following points state its spread
(i) In Awadh, peasants under the leadership of Baba Ram Chandra revolted against the talukdars and the landlords who demanded very high rent and different taxes from them. The peasant demanded reduction of revenue, abolition of begar and social boycott of oppressive landlords. In many places, local leaders told peasants that Gandhiji had declared that no taxes were to be paid and land was to be redistributed among the poor.
(ii) In the Gudem hills of Andhra Pradesh, a Militant Guerrilla Movement spread. The colonial government had closed large forest areas which affected the livelihood of the forest people. When the government forced them to contribute begar or free labour, they revolted. Alluri Sitaram Raju inspired by Gandhiji’s ideals came to lead them and the Gudem rebels attacked police stations and carried on guerrilla warfare for achieving Swaraj.