Civil Disobedience Movement

Summary

• Gandhi Started this movement on March 12, 1930
• This was in responce to British Monopoly on Indian Salt
• Britain's Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple in the Indian diet.
• Gandhi declared resistance to this act started a mass movemnt known as satyagraha, or mass civil disobedience.
• Civil disobedience broke out all across India, soon involving millions of Indians,
• British authorities arrested more than 60,000 people.
• Gandhi himself was arrested but the satyagraha continued without him.
• Gandhi called off this Movement in Gandhi Irvin Pact in 1931

Features of Civil Disobedience Movement

1. Boycott British Good
2. Not to Pay Taxes
3. Resign from British Govt Jobs
4. Foreign clothes were boycotted
5. Peasants refused to pay the land revenue

Salient Features of Gandhi-Irvin Pact

1. The Congress would participate in the Round Table Conference.
2. The Congress would discontinue the Civil Disobedience Movement.
3. The Government would withdraw all ordinances issued to curb the Congress.
4. The Government would withdraw all prosecutions relating to offenses other than violent one.
5. The Government would release all persons undergoing sentences of imprisonment for their activities in the civil disobedience movement.

Impact of Civil DisObendiance Movement
The civil disobedience movement contributed greatly to the widening of the base of the freedom strugle. A large number of social groups like merchants and shopkeepers ,peasantstribals and workersin different parts of the country were mobilised for indian nationalism.
It made people understand the significance of the pricipals of non- violence .people could resist violence with tolerance and courage.

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