Question

Describe civil disobedience movement i
In short note

Answer 1

The Salt March, also known as the Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to produce salt from the seawater in the coastal village of Dandi (now in Gujarat), as was the practice of the local populace until British officials introduced taxation on salt production, deemed their sea-salt reclamation activities illegal, and then repeatedly used force to stop it. The 24-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly. It gained worldwide attention which gave impetus to the Indian independence movement and started the nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement. Mahatma Gandhi started this march with 78 of his trusted volunteers. Walking ten miles a day for 24 days, the march spanned over 240 miles

Answer 2

Civil Disobedience Movement

⇒ 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 .

⇒ 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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