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describe civil disobedience and its impact on national movement?

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Civil disobedience, refusal to obey a law or follow a policy believed to be unjust. Practitioners of civil disobedience basing their actions on moral right and usually employ the nonviolent technique of passive resistance in order to bring wider attention to the injustice. Risking punishment, such as violent retaliatory acts or imprisonment, they attempt to bring about changes in the law. In the modern era, civil disobedience has been used in such events as street demonstrations, marches, the occupying of buildings, and strikes and other forms of economic resistance.
 

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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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The following were the main features of the Civil Disobedience movement:

  1. Deliberately breaking unjust laws like the salt tax law.

  2. Boycott of foreign made cloth and liquor shops.

  3. Refusal by peasants to pay revenue and chaukidari taxes.

  4. Violation of forest laws by grazing animals in the reserved forests.

    In April 1930 there were violent police-crowd clashes in Calcutta. 
    Approximately 100,000 people were imprisoned in the course of the Civil disobedience movement (1930-31), while in Peshawar unarmed demonstrators were fired upon in the Qissa Khwani bazaar massacre. 
    The latter event catapulted the then newly formed Khudai Khidmatgar movement (founder Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the Frontier Gandhi) onto the National scene. 
    While Gandhi was in jail, the first Round Table Conference was held in London in November 1930, without representation from the Indian National Congress. 
    The ban upon the Congress was removed because of economic hardships caused by the satyagraha. Gandhi, along with other members of the Congress Working Committee, was released from prison in January 1931          hope it helped u.................
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1)In december 1929, the congress demanded purnswaraj from the gov.

2)This movment began in 1930 under the leadership of Ghandhi ji and presidentship of Jawaharlal Nehru.

3)It started with the Dandi March when Ghandhi ji and his followeres walked from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi.

4)Here they broke the salt law by gathering matured salt fund on the sea shore and boiling sea water to produce salt.

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