CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
MOVEMENT
(1930 TO 1942)
Lijin Golden
MAJOR AREAS
Withdrawal of Non Cooperation Movement
 Formation of Swaraj Party
 Period in between 1920- 1930
 Simon Commission
 Causes of Civil Disobedience Movement
 Salt satyagraha
 Participants of the C D M
 Difference between NCM and CDM
 Why it failed
 Round Table conference
 Gandhi/ Subash Chandra Bose/ Nehru/ Ambedkar
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WHAT WAS THE REASON GANDHI CALLED
OFF THE NON COOPERATION MOVEMENT
 After
a period of time the Non Cooperation Movement
became violent especially in Village and plantation
sector.
 A peaceful demonstration in a bazar at Chauri Chaura
in Gorakhpur in U P became violent with the
intervention of the Police.
 The police arrested some villagers and kept in prison.
 For to release these villagers the peasants led a march
to the police station at Chauri chaura.
 It also turned in to violence and the villagers they were
burned the police station and killed 22 police officers.
 When Gandhi heard this incident he immediately called
off the Non Cooperation Movement in 1922.
FORMATION OF SWARAJ PARTY
Some congress leaders tired of mass struggles and wanted to
participate in Provincial Council Election that had been set
by the Government of India Act 1919 (Montague Chelmsford
reforms).
 They felt that it was important to oppose British policies
within the councils argue for reforms and also demonstrate
these council were not truly democratic.
 C.R Das and Motilal Nehru formed Swaraj party within
the congress to argue for a return to council politics.
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(Jawaharlal Nehru and Subash Chandra Bose pressed
more radical mass agitation and for full independence.)
FACTORS AFFECTED THE INDIAN
POLITICS IN LATE 1920’S
Two factors shaped the Indian politics in late 1920’s.
1. World Economic Depression
2. Simon Commission
World Economic Depression : After the First World
War a great economic crisis had spread all over the
World. It affected the Indian economy. Agricultural
prices began to fall from 1926 to 1930. As the demand for
agricultural goods and exports declined. Peasants failed
to sale their harvest and pay their revenues. In 1930, the
countryside was in turmoil.