what is salt March and civil disobedience movement
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✒ What is salt March and civil disobedience movement ?
- It shattered people's faith in the British government.
- It revived the will to fight the elections. It deepened the social roots for the freedom struggle.
- It popularised new methods of propaganda like the Prabhat Pheris, pamphlets, etc.
⭐ ROUND TABLE CONFERENCES DURING CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT : -
The Indian Round Table Conference held three sessions which are also referred to as the first, second and third Round Table Conferences.
- The First Round Table Conference was held in London.
- The Second Round Table Conference was attended by Gandhiji as a sole representative of the Congress according to the terms of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact.
- The Third Conference was convened in 1932 but the Congress boycotted it.
The circumstances that led to the Civil Disobedience Movement were the following :-
- Simon Commission: It was an all-British Commission appointed in November 1927 to investigate the need for further constitutional reform. The absence of Indians was seen as an insult to the self-respect of Indians and they decided to boycott the Commission.
- Demand for Poorna Swaraj: The British government did not accept the Nehru Report and the Congress passed the Poorna Swaraj resolution at its Lahore session in 1929.
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Mahatma Gandhi started his famous salt march or Dandi March on 11th March 1930 accompanied by 78 of his volunteers.
▪ Mahatma Gandhi found in Salt a powerful symbol that could unite the nation
▪ Gandhiji send a letter to Viceroy Irwin stating 11 demands. The most steering of all was the demand to abolish the salt tax
▪ salt was the most essential item of food and was consumed by rich and poor alike
▪ Arvind was unwilling to negotiate. So Gandhiji started salt march with 78 volunteers he reached Dandi violated law and made salt
▪ This march developed the feeling of nationalism, people in different parts of the country broke the salt law and manufactured salt and demonstrated in front of government salt factories
▪ This marked the beginning of civil disobedience movement
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The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.