Social Science
Towards Civil Disobedience
सविनय अवज्ञा की ओर
This Class 10 Social Science topic from Chapter 2, “Nationalism in India,” explains how the national movement moved towards Civil Disobedience. Students learn about the impact of the Simon Commission, the Lahore Congress and the demand for Purna Swaraj, followed by Gandhi’s Salt March and the launch of the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930. The topic also examines participation by different social groups, the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, and the movement’s achievements and limitations in the wider struggle for independence.
Practice questions
What deeper understanding of mass movement did Gandhi show by choosing salt as a symbol?HardLevel 23Why was breaking the salt law a strategically successful step for beginning the movement?HardLevel 23Why does calling the Dandi March only a walking march reduce its political meaning?HardLevel 23How did the march from Sabarmati to Dandi become a tool of public communication?HardLevel 23How did making salt at Dandi become an anti-power symbol?HardLevel 23How do both parts of the term Civil Disobedience clarify the nature of the movement?HardLevel 23What was the most important expansion in method from Non-Cooperation to Civil Disobedience?HardLevel 23Why was breaking law in Civil Disobedience moral protest and not disorder?HardLevel 23Why did the Dandi March become the natural next step after Irwin’s refusal?HardLevel 23Why is it incomplete to call Salt Satyagraha only an economic tax protest?HardLevel 23What change in national politics is shown by people joining along the route of the Dandi March?HardLevel 23Why can the Dandi March be called an effective example of visual politics?HardLevel 23Why was boycott of foreign goods considered both an economic and political weapon?HardLevel 23Which power of colonial rule was challenged by refusing to pay taxes?HardLevel 23What development in the national struggle is shown by events from the Simon Commission to the Dandi March?HardLevel 23How can the Lahore Session and Dandi March be understood as goal and means?HardLevel 23Why was the salt law seen as a symbol of colonial power interfering in everyday life?HardLevel 23Why can Salt Satyagraha be called a strong example of mass politics?HardLevel 23The combination of non-violence and law disobedience in Civil Disobedience was based on which idea?HardLevel 23Why did the Dandi March give moral strength to Civil Disobedience?HardLevel 23