Question
Describe the significance of the Civil Disobedience Movement in the freedom struggle of India.
Solution
The significance Civil Disobedience Movement:
(i )People were asked to not only refuse cooperation with the British (as they had done in 1921–22), but also break the colonial laws.
(ii) Thousands in different parts of the country broke the salt law, manufactured salt and demonstrated in front of government salt factories.
(iii) As the movement spread, foreign cloth was boycotted and liquor shops were picketed.
(iv) Peasants refused to pay revenue and chaukidari taxes and village officials resigned.
(v) In many places, forest people violated forest laws by going into reserved forests to collect wood and graze cattle.
