Question

Which industrialist attacked colonial control over Indian economy and supported the Civil Disobedience Movement?
(a) Dinshaw Petit
(b) Purshottamdas Thakurdas
(c) Dwarkanath Tagore
(d) Seth Hukumchand

Answer 1

(b) Purshottamdas Thakurdas

Explanation:

• In reaction to colonial policy, which limited commercial practices, the manufacturing class needed to grow its business. They required protection from foreign imports and a rupee-sterling foreign exchange ratio to dissuade imports
• Under the leadership of leading industrialists such as Purshottamdas Thakurdas and G. D. I Birla, the industrialists who originally fought Indian economic colonial influence, then backed up the Civil Disobedience movt.
• It offered financial assistance and opposed the buying or selling of imported goods. Most entrepreneurs saw Swaraj as a time when there would be no more colonial controls on business, trade and industry will flourish without controls.
• In the civil disobedience movt., the industrial working group also participated. In 1930 there was a demonstration rally and boycott movement involving thousands of Chotanagpur workers.

Answer 2

Answer:

option b is correct.....