Chauri Chaura

Chauri Chaura
Chauri Chaura
Town
	Chauri Chaura Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
	Coordinates: 26°39′04″N 83°34′52″E / 26.651°N 83.581°E
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Gorakhpur
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	273201

Chauri Chaura (Pargana: Haveli, Tehsil: Gorakhpur) is a town near Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. The town is located at a distance of 16 km from Gorakhpur, on the State Highway between Gorakhpur and Deoria.^[1] The town railway station is located 25 km south-east of Gorakhpur Junction.

In 1922, the Chauri Chaura incident took place in the town when protesters set fire to a police station and killed at least 22 policemen in retaliation for the police firing on several protesters who had taken part in the non-cooperation movement as part of the Indian freedom struggle. This incident is depicted in the movie Gandhi.

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