In the context of the Civil Disobedience Movement, answer the following: (a) Give an account of the Salt Satyagraha.

Question

Answer the following questions briefly:

In the context of the Civil Disobedience Movement, answer the following: 

(a) Give an account of the Salt Satyagraha. 

(b) How did the government react to the movement? 

(c) What impact did the Civil Disobedience Movement (1930-34) have on the nation?

Answer 1

(a) The Salt Satyagraha began with the historic Dandi March.Gandhiji set out from Sabarmati Ashram with 78 followers, on a 385-km journey to the coastal village of Dandi. Thousands of people joined him on the way. On his arrival in Dandi, he picked up a handful of salt from the beach. This act symbolized defiance of the salt law. It was a signal for every Indian to violate the salt law. Throughout India, people began to manufacture salt and sell it openly, 

(b) The goverment suppressed the movement with force and brutality, Gandhiji, Nehru and all other important leaders were arrested. Hundreds of people were injured or killed in lathi charges and police firing. Over 90,000 people were imprisoned. 

(c) Civil Disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil Disobedience is usually but not always, defined as being non-violent resistance. Civil Disobedience is one of the many ways people have rebelled against what they deem to be unfair laws. It has been used in many well-documented nonviolent resistance movement in India.