Towards Civil Disobedience

Step 1: Complete independence was a big political goal. Step 2: Salt Satyagraha connected it with people’s everyday need. Step 3: Understand Gandhi’s strategy as a link between goal and symbol.

Step 1: Salt tax was an economic burden. Step 2: Gandhi presented it as a symbol of unjust British policy. Step 3: Understand salt in both economic and political meanings.

Step 1: Volunteers showed discipline in the Dandi March. Step 2: This created a non-violent and organised image of the movement. Step 3: Treat discipline as a strength of Gandhian movements.

Step 1: Salt could be made from the sea. Step 2: Reaching Dandi and making salt was a clear act of breaking the law. Step 3: Remember place and purpose together.

Step 1: Salt was essential even in the food of poor families. Step 2: The tax made this essential item costly and burdensome. Step 3: Connect salt tax with the living expenses of the poor.

Step 1: Salt was linked with home and food. Step 2: Therefore women and common people could see it as their own issue. Step 3: Connect mass participation with the simplicity of the issue.

Step 1: Understanding salt did not require difficult political language. Step 2: Everyone could understand its importance through life. Step 3: Treat a simple symbol as a strength of public communication.

Step 1: Complete independence gave the larger goal of freedom. Step 2: The eleven demands brought immediate public problems forward. Step 3: Understand the movement as a link between larger aim and daily demands.

Step 1: Salt was needed by every class. Step 2: So opposition to the tax could unite different social groups. Step 3: Write salt as a shared public issue.

Step 1: Violation of the salt law was easy and symbolic. Step 2: If people adopted it, government authority would face an open challenge. Step 3: Treat it as a mass challenge to colonial power.

Step 1: The Dandi March was an open and long march. Step 2: People along the route could see Gandhi and the movement directly. Step 3: Connect visual impact with public awakening.

Step 1: Gandhi did not speak of opposing all laws. Step 2: He stressed non-violent disobedience of unjust laws. Step 3: Connect the moral basis with justice and non-violence.

Step 1: A movement needs a goal to give it clear direction. Step 2: Complete independence gave that clear direction. Step 3: Remember the role of an aim in any movement.

Step 1: Complete independence was a large political goal. Step 2: A simple issue like salt connected people with that goal. Step 3: Write the relation between goal and symbol in exams.

Step 1: Gandhi first gave the government a chance to correct policies. Step 2: When demands were not accepted he began peaceful disobedience. Step 3: Understand the sequence as moving from dialogue to struggle.

Step 1: Salt was an everyday need of every person. Step 2: Through this simplicity the movement reached a wide public. Step 3: In answers write the link between simple issue and mass movement.

Step 1: Protest against the Simon Commission raised the issue of representation. Step 2: Complete independence and Dandi March carried the struggle toward mass disobedience. Step 3: Understand the development from background to movement.

Step 1: Complete independence clarified the direction of the national movement. Step 2: The Dandi March turned that direction into mass action. Step 3: Remember cause-effect relation in correct order.

Step 1: First the protest against Simon Commission increased dissatisfaction. Step 2: Then complete independence and Gandhi’s demands shaped the direction. Step 3: Dandi March began Civil Disobedience.

Step 1: Protest against the Simon Commission increased dissatisfaction. Step 2: Complete independence gave the goal and Salt Satyagraha connected people. Step 3: In conclusion write background, goal and mass action together.