Question

HOW CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT WAS FOLLOWED BY THE PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT PART OF COUNTRY?

Answer 1

The observance of the Independence Day in 1930 was followed by the launching of the Civil Disobedience Movement under the leadership of Gandhi. It began with the famous Dandi March of Gandhi. On 12 March 1930, Gandhi left the Sabarmati Ashram at Ahmadabad on foot with 78 other members of the Ashram for Dandi, a village on the western sea-coast of India, at a distance of about 385 km from Ahmadabad. They reached Dandi on 6 April 1930. There, Gandhi broke the salt law. It was illegal for anyone to make salt as it was a government monopoly. Gandhi defied the government by picking up a handful of salt which had been formed by the evaporation of sea. The defiance of the salt law was followed by the spread of Civil Disobedience Movement all over the country. Making of salt spread throughout the country in the first phase of the civil disobedience movement, it became a symbol of the people’s defiance of the government.

Answer 2

The people supported the Civil Disobedi¬ence

Movement as it spread in different parts of the country

due to the following reasons:

a. Due to the worldwide economic depression the

agricultural prices began to fall, demands for

agricultural goods fell and the export declined.

b. This resulted in a countryside turmoil because

now it was difficult for the peasants to sell their

harvest and pay the high revenue.

c. Against this situation of countryside turmoil the

Tory government in Britain set up a commission named Simon Commission after the name of Sir

John Simon to look into the constitutional system

in India and suggest the changes needed. There

were no Indian members in this commission.