1) Why did Gandhiji break the Salt law?
2) Why did the Indian textiles decline in the 19th century?
3) How did the Company plan to end Mughal dynasty?
4) What was the focus of Second Five Year Plan?
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1.Gandhiji choose to break the salt law because in his view, it was sinful to tax salt since it is such as essential item of our food that is used by the rich or the poor person in the same quantity.
2.(i) Britain imposed import duties on cotton textiles, thus export market got declined. (ii) Exports of British goods to India increased. ... (iii) The machine-made goods were cheaper and weavers could not compete with them. (iv) Raw cotton exports from India to Britain shot up the prices of cotton.
3. ... In 1856, Governor-General “Canning decided that Bahadur Shah Zafar would be the last Mughal king and after his death his descendants would be known as princes.
4.Second Plan (1956–1961)The Second Plan focused on the development of the public sector and "rapid Industrialisation". The plan followed the Mahalanobis model, an economic development model developed by the Indian statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in 1953.