When Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of Nabha was forced to abdicate in July 1923, Sikhs across Punjab read it as British interference and began a protest at Gurdwara Gangsar at Jaito in his state.
The administration broke up an akhand path in progress. The demand became the right to complete it. From then on jathas of five hundred marched to Jaito in succession, month after month, to be arrested.
On 21 February 1924 a jatha was fired on as it approached the town. The Akali count of the dead was around a hundred; the official figure was much lower. Hundreds were wounded.
The morcha ran into 1925 and involved thousands of arrests. Jawaharlal Nehru, who came to observe in September 1923, was arrested and held in Nabha jail. It was his first imprisonment and he wrote about it.
The campaign ended with the Sikh Gurdwaras Act of 1925, which was the movement's object in a broader sense, though Nabha's Maharaja was never restored.
The jathas were organised at the Akal Takht, numbered, and sent out on a fixed schedule, so that the arrest of one was followed immediately by the arrival of the next.
That is the method the Akali movement used throughout: a queue of volunteers, a public departure, no resistance on arrest, and the whole thing reported in the Punjabi press.
The morcha ran into 1925 and ended with the passage of the Sikh Gurdwaras Act. It is the last of the morchas and the one that produced the legislation.