Question

descibe the role of merchants and industrialist towards civil disobedience movement

Answer 1

The merchants and industrialists were earning huge profits from international markets. However, the colonial policies like free import duties were hurting their interests. Thus, they formed the Federation of the Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industries and the Indian Industrial and Commercial Congress in 1920. The industrialists and the merchants supported the Civil Disobedience Movement initially to protect their own business interests. They gave monetary help and refused to buy and sell imported and foreign goods. However, later, the industrialists became apprehensive of the growing militant activities of the revolutionaries and the growing influence of socialists in the Congress.

Answer 2

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Rajdeep here...

The merchants and industrialists, specially those of the middle class, played a vital role in the Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930. It is always the middle class who fights, because the rich is always happy with what it is and the poor is always tired in making both his ends meet. The merchants refused paying tax. The industrialists boycotted British goods and accepted only Swadeshi or Indian goods. They violated salt and many laws of different kinds. Demonstrations and strikes were common.

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