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
Why did the demand to remove the salt tax create the widest public impact among the eleven demands?ExpertLevel 24What was Gandhi’s most subtle political understanding in choosing salt as a symbol?ExpertLevel 24Breaking the salt law was most effective for beginning Civil Disobedience because of what?ExpertLevel 24Why is it historically incomplete to call the Dandi March only a walking march?ExpertLevel 24How did the march from Sabarmati to Dandi give the movement the form of public communication?ExpertLevel 24How was making salt at Dandi an open challenge to colonial power?ExpertLevel 24Why is it necessary to read both civil and disobedience together in the term Civil Disobedience?ExpertLevel 24What was the most important expansion in method from Non-Cooperation to Civil Disobedience?ExpertLevel 24Why was law-breaking in Civil Disobedience seen as moral protest rather than disorder?ExpertLevel 24Why did the Dandi March become the politically natural next step after Irwin’s refusal?ExpertLevel 24Why is it an incomplete analysis to call Salt Satyagraha only a tax protest?ExpertLevel 24What transformation of national politics is shown by people joining along the route of the Dandi March?ExpertLevel 24Why can the Dandi March be called an effective example of visual politics?ExpertLevel 24How was boycott of foreign goods a tool of double pressure in Civil Disobedience?ExpertLevel 24At what level did refusal to pay taxes challenge colonial rule?ExpertLevel 24Which development of the national struggle is most clearly shown by the sequence from Simon Commission to Dandi March?ExpertLevel 24How should the Lahore Session and the Dandi March be understood as goal and means?ExpertLevel 24Why was the salt law seen as a subtle example of colonial power interfering in everyday life?ExpertLevel 24Why can Salt Satyagraha be called an excellent example of mass politics?ExpertLevel 24The combination of non-violence and law disobedience in Civil Disobedience was based on which basic idea?ExpertLevel 24