Question

Explain any three reasons for the lukewarm response of some Muslim organizations to the Civil Disobedience Movement.

Answer 1

Civil Disobedience Movement and Muslims

Explanation:

The Muslims gave a lukewarm response to the Civil Disobedience Movement due to the following reasons:

1. Muslims felt alienated from the Congress after the decline of the Khilafat movement.
2. In the mid 1920s, Congress seemed to be visibly associated with the Hindu nationalist groups, which created suspicion among the Muslims.
3. As time progressed, the relationship between the two communities of Hindu and Muslim worsened and resulted in many communal riots.
4. Muslim League gained prominence and demanded a separate electorate for their community.

Answer 2

The three reasons for the lukewarm response of some

Muslim Organisations to the Civil Disobedience

Movement were:

a. Due to the decline of the non-cooperation Khilafat

movement.

b. They felt alienated from Congress. They felt

that Congress is linked with a Hindu Mahasabha

and their propagandas are Hindu oriented. This

thinking resulted to Hindu-Muslim communal

clashes and riots in different parts of the

country. Thus the distance between these two

communities widened. Their main issue was over

the representation in the future assemblies.

c. In the All Parties Conference in 1928, the demands

of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, for reserved seats in the

central assembly and representation in proportion

to population in the Muslim dominated provinces

like Bengal and Punjab, was strongly opposed by

M.R.Jayakar of Hindu Mahasabha. The Muslims

were very much concerned about their status,

culture and identity as a minority in India.