Features of Civil Disobedience Movement
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1)Deliberately breaking unjust laws like the salt tax law.
2)Boycott of foreign made cloth and liquor shops.
3)Refusal by peasants to pay revenue and chaukidari taxes.
4)Violation of forest laws by grazing animals in the reserved forests.
FEATURES OF 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