Question

Difference between the civil disobedent and the non coopration movement

Answer 1

• The Non-Cooperation movement was launched by Gandhi on 1st August 1920 while the Civil Disobedience movement was launched by Gandhi on 6th April 1930 at Dandi in Gujarat. Thus there was a gap of 10 years between the two movements.
• The Civil Disobedience movement was centred around the defiance of salt laws throughout the country which became the symbol of the movement. The Non-Cooperation movement did not have any such single defining symbol around which the entire movement was centred.
• The goal of the Non-Cooperation movement was Swaraj or self-rule by demanding the status of dominion status from the British government. While the goal of the Civil Disobedience movement had moved further; from Swaraj to complete independence from foreign rule.
• There was large scale participation of Muslim working class in the Non-Cooperation movement which was not witnessed in the Civil Disobedience movement later on due to the Divide and Rule policy of the British and communal propaganda of Muslim League and Hindu Mahasabha.
• Over 90,000 people went to jail during the course of the Civil Disobedience movement — more than three times the figure for the Non-Cooperation movement.