Question

What are the limitations of the Civil Disobedience movement?

Answer 1

1. the British government appointed

Simon commission in 1972

• the commission witnessed wide protests with slogans Simon go back
• bundas and hartals were organised in different places like Bombay madras
• lala rajput Roy died of laticharge

Answer 2

The limitation of the Civil Disobedience was that some different groups were not moved together with this concept.

(i) The ‘untouchables’ or Dalits were not moved by the abstract concept of swaraj. From around the 1930s they had began to call themselves Dalits or oppressed. Many Dalit leaders were keen on a different political solution to the problems of the community. They began organising themselves, damanding reserved seats in educational institution and a separate electorate. They believed only political empowerment would resolve the problem

of their social disabilities. Dalit participation in Civil Disobedience Movement was limited particularly in Maharashtra.

(ii) Some of the Muslim political organisations in India were also lukewarm in their response to the Civil Disobedience Movement. A large section of Muslims felt alienated from the congress. From the mid-1920s, the congress had come to be associated with Hindu religious nationalist groups like the Hindu Maha–Sabha. Hindu Muslim riots became frequent. Every riot deepended the distance between the two communities. During the

Civil Disobedience Movement, there was an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust between the two communities