What are the effects of civil disobedience movement?????
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In eastern India, payment of chowkidari tax was refused. This no-tax campaign became very popular in Bihar.
In Bengal, J.N. Sengupta defied Government laws by reading openly the books banned by the government. Defiance of forest laws assumed a mass character in Maharashtra.
The movement had taken a fire hold in provinces of U.P., Orissa. Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Assam.
The Gandhi-Irwin Pact and the Second Round Table Conference having failed, the movement was resumed with new zeal.
EFFECTS OF THE MOVEMENT
⇒ 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.