Towards Civil Disobedience

Step 1: The Simon Commission was sent to review India’s constitutional system. Step 2: It was opposed because it had no Indian member. Step 3: In exams link the Simon Commission with constitutional review and protest.

Step 1: The Simon Commission came to discuss India’s future. Step 2: Yet it had no Indian member so people were angry. Step 3: Remember lack of Indian representation as the main reason for protest.

Step 1: Indians strongly opposed the Simon Commission. Step 2: The slogan Simon Go Back became very famous during the protest. Step 3: Remember the commission together with this slogan.

Step 1: The demand for complete independence came strongly in the Lahore Session of Congress. Step 2: It prepared the background for the Civil Disobedience Movement. Step 3: Remember Lahore Session and complete independence as a pair.

Step 1: The Lahore Session was an important turning point in the national movement. Step 2: It was presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru. Step 3: Remember the president and the session together.

Step 1: Complete independence did not mean partial freedom. Step 2: It meant the demand for full freedom of India. Step 3: Remember it as a clear demand for independence.

Step 1: After the Lahore Session the idea of complete independence had to be taken to people. Step 2: So 26 January 1930 was decided to be celebrated as Independence Day. Step 3: Remember the date with complete independence.

Step 1: Before starting the movement Gandhi sent demands to the government. Step 2: The aim was to give a chance to correct unjust policies. Step 3: Link the letter with preparation for civil disobedience.

Step 1: Salt was needed by both poor and rich people. Step 2: The demand to abolish salt tax directly touched common people. Step 3: Remember salt as a symbol linked with everyday life.

Step 1: Salt was used in every household. Step 2: Tax on it burdened even the poor. Step 3: In exams write salt as a simple and powerful mass symbol.

Step 1: Gandhi described the salt law as unjust. Step 2: Breaking it became a major symbol of the beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement. Step 3: Remember salt law and civil disobedience together.

Step 1: The Dandi March was Gandhi’s march to break the salt law. Step 2: Its aim was to turn opposition to salt tax into a mass movement. Step 3: Remember Dandi March with the salt law.

Step 1: The Dandi March was linked with the beginning of Civil Disobedience. Step 2: It was led by Mahatma Gandhi. Step 3: Remember Gandhi and Dandi March as a key fact.

Step 1: Gandhi began the Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram. Step 2: The march was meant to break the salt law at the seashore. Step 3: Remember Sabarmati Ashram as the starting point.

Step 1: Gandhi walked from Sabarmati to Dandi. Step 2: There the salt law was broken to give the message of civil disobedience. Step 3: Remember Dandi as the final place of the Salt Satyagraha.

Step 1: Civil disobedience means breaking laws but in a peaceful manner. Step 2: Its aim was to oppose unjust laws. Step 3: Link the word civil with peaceful and disciplined protest.

Step 1: Non-Cooperation mainly meant withdrawing cooperation from the government. Step 2: Civil Disobedience also included peaceful violation of unjust laws. Step 3: Remember the difference through law-breaking.

Step 1: Gandhi’s demands included public issues like salt tax. Step 2: These demands also tried to connect different groups. Step 3: Link the eleven demands with preparation for the movement and public interest.

Step 1: Gandhi had first kept the path of settlement open. Step 2: When the demands were not accepted the decision to start the movement became firm. Step 3: Link Irwin’s refusal with the background of Dandi March.

Step 1: Salt was needed by every person. Step 2: Tax on it burdened even the poor. Step 3: Understand the salt law as injustice against common people.

Step 1: The centre of Civil Disobedience was opposition to unjust laws. Step 2: This opposition had to be peaceful and disciplined. Step 3: The name of the movement itself shows its method.

Step 1: The salt law was broken during the Dandi March. Step 2: It showed people the path of peaceful disobedience. Step 3: Treat the Dandi March as a symbolic and inspiring event.

Step 1: Complete independence made the demand for freedom clear. Step 2: This clear goal prepared the background for Civil Disobedience. Step 3: Understand the relation between goal and movement.

Step 1: Salt was an item of ordinary life. Step 2: Gandhi made it a symbol of protest against unjust rule. Step 3: While writing symbolic importance mention the universal need for salt.

Step 1: Gandhi kept the possibility of negotiation before the movement. Step 2: He wrote a letter of demands to Irwin. Step 3: Remember the letter and demands in the preparation of the movement.