Towards Civil Disobedience

Step 1: Complete independence was a large national goal. Step 2: Salt Satyagraha connected that goal with people’s daily life. Step 3: Understand the link between goal and symbol.

Step 1: Salt tax was an economic burden. Step 2: Gandhi linked it with the unjust policy of British rule. Step 3: Understand salt in both economic and political meanings.

Step 1: Volunteers marched in a disciplined way in the Dandi March. Step 2: This created a serious and non-violent image of the movement. Step 3: Treat discipline as a major strength of Gandhian movements.

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

Step 1: Poor families also used salt daily. Step 2: Because of tax even a small essential item felt costly. Step 3: Connect salt tax with the cost of living of the poor.

Step 1: Salt was closely connected with domestic life. Step 2: So women could also understand it as an issue of their own life. Step 3: Link women’s participation with the simplicity of the public issue.

Step 1: Salt was familiar to every person’s life. Step 2: So the movement’s message could spread easily through it. Step 3: Treat a simple symbol as a strength of mass communication.

Step 1: Complete independence gave the larger goal of freedom. Step 2: The eleven demands raised everyday and economic issues. Step 3: Understand the link between large goal and public demands.

Step 1: Both poor and rich used salt. Step 2: So opposition to salt tax could become a shared issue. Step 3: Understand it as a public issue that connected classes.

Step 1: Breaking the salt law was an easy symbolic step. Step 2: If people followed it the authority of rule would be challenged. Step 3: Treat it as a mass challenge to colonial power.

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

Step 1: Gandhi was speaking about unjust laws. Step 2: His method was not violence but non-violent disobedience. Step 3: Connect the moral basis with justice and non-violence.

Step 1: A movement needs a goal for direction. Step 2: Complete independence made this direction clear. Step 3: Connect the importance of a goal with preparation for the movement.

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

Step 1: Gandhi first gave the government a chance to correct policies. Step 2: When the demands were rejected he began Civil Disobedience. Step 3: Understand the sequence as movement from dialogue to struggle.

Step 1: Salt was linked with every person’s food. Step 2: Because of this the message of Civil Disobedience could spread easily. Step 3: In answers write the link between simple issue and mass movement.

Step 1: The Simon Commission raised the question of representation. Step 2: The Dandi March began the struggle as mass disobedience. Step 3: Understand the sequence from background to action.

Step 1: Complete independence clarified the national goal. Step 2: Salt Satyagraha turned that goal into public action. Step 3: Remember cause and effect in the correct order.

Step 1: First protest against the 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.