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Originally Posted by Ayna Can any one please provide me with detailed notes on civil disobedience movement?..preferably from some Pakistani source.I have been browsing for many hours but ended up with pieces written by Indians authors only and they have just exaggerated good points of movement (as it was the movement started by Gandhi) instead of describing some facts and figures. i need some unbiased note.

• 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

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

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.