What was the main aim of Civil Disobedience Movement? What were the main features of the movement?
Answers
The main aim was to show non cooperation with the British .
Another aim was to defy the laws .
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 .