Describe the significance of the civil disobedience movement in the freedom struggle of India? (pls note I want the significance not the features. Thanks)
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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.
"Disobedience" redirects here. For the act of disobeying one's superior, see insubordination. For other uses, see Disobedience (disambiguation).
For other uses, see Civil disobedience (disambiguation).
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
"Disobedience" redirects here. For the act of disobeying one's superior, see insubordination. For other uses, see Disobedience (disambiguation).
For other uses, see Civil disobedience (disambiguation).
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
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