How did civil disobedience movement became a mass movement
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Civil Disobedience - How Gandhiji turned the national movement into a mass movement. The Civil Disobedience Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi, in the year 1930 was an important milestone in the history of Indian Nationalism. It had a more visible impact than the non-cooperation movement ten years earlier.
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i. The Dandi march marked the beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement. People were now asked not only to refuse cooperation with the British, as they had done during Non Cooperation Movement, but also to break colonial laws.
ii. Thousands in different parts of the country broke the salt law, manufactured salt and demonstrated in front of government salt factories.
iii. As the movement spread, foreign cloths were boycotted, and liquor shops were picketed. Peasants refused to pay revenue and ‘chaukidari’ taxes, village officials resigned, and in many places, forest people violated forest laws by going intoReserved Forests to collect wood and graze cattle.
iv. Worried by the developments, the colonial government began arresting the Congress leaders one by one. This led to violent clashes in many palaces.
v. When Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, was arrested in April 1930, angry crowds demonstrated in the streets of Peshawar, facing armoured cars and police firing. Many were killed.
vi. When Mahatma Gandhi was arrested, industrial workers in Sholapur attacked police posts, municipal buildings, law courts, and railway stations –all structures that symbolized British rule.
vii. The frightened government responded with a policy of brutal repression. Peaceful satyagrahis were attacked, women and children were beaten, and about 100,000 people were arrested. In such a situation, Mahatma Gandhi decided to call off the movement.