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Civil disobedience movement in other areas

Answer 1

Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws of the state, and/or demands, orders, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is sometimes defined as having to be nonviolent to be called civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is sometimes, therefore, equated with nonviolent resistance.

Although civil disobedience is considered to be an expression of contempt for law, Martin Luther King Jr. regarded civil disobedience to be a display and practice of reverence for law; for as "Any man who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail in order to arouse the conscience of the community on the injustice of the law is at that moment expressing the very highest respect for law."

Answer 2

⇒ Gandhiji violated the Salt Laws on 6 th April , at Dandi . He selected to attack the Salt Laws particularly because it affected all sections of the society.

⇒ The Movement was characterized by non-payment of taxes and revenues .

⇒ The people were asked to refuse to pay the rural chaukidari tax in Eastern India .

⇒ Everywhere in the country , there were demonstrations , hartals and campaigns to boycott foreign goods .

⇒Boycott of British goods and picketing of liquor shops were a part of the programme .

⇒  It resulted in mass strikes and setting up of parallel Governments.

⇒ The movement reached all over the country and even stirred the brave Pathans.

⇒ Non-violence and non-cooperation were the main features of the Movement.

⇒ Ideas of Satyagraha and Swadeshi were spread all over the country.

⇒Forest laws were violated in Maharashtra and Karnataka .

⇒ The movement spread rapidly and played a major role in the Freedom Struggle !

⇒The Government took several repressive measures to crush the Movement :

O The Congress was declared illegal

O The Government started lathi charges against protest .

O The demonstrations were fired upon .

O This led to the Gandhi - Irwin Pact in March 1931.

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⇒ The Indian National Congress ( INC ) started the Civil Disobedience Movement in February 1930 at Sabarmati Ashram .

⇒ Mahatma Gandhi was one of the leaders of this Movement .

⇒ Before starting the movement , Gandhiji served an Eleven Point Ultimatum on the British Government .

⇒ When the Government ignored them , Gandhiji started the Movement .