Question

What are the main features of civil disobedience movement?

Answer 1

Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is sometimes defined as having to be nonviolent to be called civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is sometimes, therefore, equated with nonviolent resistance.

Answer 2

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.

MORE INFO

⇒ The Indian National Congress ( INC ) started the Civil Disobedience Movement in February 1930 at Sabarmati Ashram .

⇒ Mahatma Gandhi was one of the leaders of this Movement .

⇒ Before starting the movement , Gandhiji served an Eleven Point Ultimatum on the British Government .

⇒ When the Government ignored them , Gandhiji started the Movement .