The ‘Salt March’ become the base to begin the ‘Civil Disobedience Movement’ because on 31st March 1930, Mahatma Gandhi sent a letter to Viceroy Irwin stating eleven demands out of which some were of general interest and some of were specific demands of different classes. The demands were wide ranging in order to bring together …
According to the Inland Emigration Act 1859, the plantation workers in Assam were not allowed to leave the tea garden. Therefore, they also joined the Swaraj movement. For the plantation workers in Assam, the notion of Swaraj was to get the right of free movement in and out of the confined space, retaining a link …
The following were the different social groups who participated in the Civil Disobedience Movement with different objectives: 1. These rich peasants due to the trade depression, falling prices and disappeared cash income were not able to pay the revenue and also the government refused to reduce the revenue. Their notion for Swaraj struggle was basically …
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Against the situation of countryside turmoil, the Tory government in Britain set up a commission named Simon Commission after the name of Sir John Simon to look into the constitutional system in India and suggest the changes needed. There were no Indian members in this commission. In the year 1928, Simon Commission arrived in India …
Some of the industrial workers who participated in the Civil Disobedience Movement were the Nagpur industrial workers who selectively adopted some of the Gandhian ideas such as boycott of the foreign goods. They participated in the movement as part of their own movement against the low wages and the poor working conditions in the industries. …
The Non-Cooperation Movement gradually slowed down in towns and cities because 1. The khadi clothes were expensive which the poor people could not afford. 2. There was need for Indian institutions for the teachers, students and the lawyers but these were very slow to come up. 3. Thus once again people started using the mill …
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In the Second Round Table Conference, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar demanded separate electorates for the Dalits. Against this Gandhiji, began a fast unto death because he believed that separate electorates for the Dalits would slow down the process of national integration. Later on, Ambedkar accepted Gandhian view and in the Poona Pact the depressed class people …
Due to the worldwide economic depression the agricultural prices began to fall, demands for agricultural goods fell and the export declined. This resulted in a countryside turmoil. Now it was difficult for the peasants to sell their harvest and pay the high revenue. Against this situation of countryside turmoil the Tory government in Britain set …
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The three major problems faced by the peasants of Awadh in the days of Non-Cooperation Movement were: 1. They demanded very high rents and other cesses from the peasants. 2. The peasants were bound to work at landlord’s farm without any payment. 3. Peasants had to do begar, no security of tenure and also they …
In the year 1909 Mahatma Gandhi wrote a book named ‘Hind Swaraj’ in which he wrote that the British survived in India only because of the cooperation of the Indians otherwise they would have collapsed within a year. Gandhiji planned to unfold the movement in stages. In the first stage the people surrendered the titles, …
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