Explain role of peasants in civil disobedience movement.
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In the countryside, rich farmer associations like the Patidars of Gujarat and the Jats belonging to the region of Uttar Pradesh have participated in the campaign.
The farmers participated in the movement because being generators of economic crops, they were badly affected due to trade inflation and falling rates. As their cash earnings sank, they found it difficult to settle the government’s revenue demand.
And the opposition of the government to decrease the revenue demand led to extensive resentment. These rich farmers became concerned advocates of the Civil Disobedience Movement, establishing their communities, and at events forcing unwilling members, to cooperate in the boycott programmes. For peasants, the fight for Swaraj was a conflict corresponding to high revenues imposed by the British government