Towards Civil Disobedience

Step 1: The Simon Commission had no Indian member. Step 2: Indians felt their future was being discussed without their voice. Step 3: In exams connect this protest with the strengthening of the demand for swaraj.

Step 1: The commission came to review constitutional matters related to India. Step 2: The absence of Indian members clearly showed lack of representation. Step 3: Link it with national self-respect and demand for participation.

Step 1: Indians had no participation in the Simon Commission. Step 2: Opposition to it intensified national dissatisfaction. Step 3: Remember it as part of the background of complete independence.

Step 1: The Lahore Session was a major turning point in the national movement. Step 2: Complete independence was accepted as the main goal. Step 3: Remember the Lahore Session with the demand for complete independence.

Step 1: The Lahore Session was an important session connected with complete independence. Step 2: It was presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru. Step 3: Remember Nehru and the Lahore Session together.

Step 1: Complete independence did not mean partial freedom. Step 2: It was a clear demand for India’s full freedom. Step 3: Write this declaration as the clear goal of the movement.

Step 1: The idea of complete independence had to reach the people. Step 2: Celebrating Independence Day increased the feeling of freedom. Step 3: Link the date with public awakening and complete independence.

Step 1: The pledge connected people with the goal of freedom. Step 2: It created mental preparation for the movement. Step 3: Treat the pledge as a tool of public preparation.

Step 1: Gandhi placed demands before starting the movement. Step 2: This showed he was giving the government a chance to correct policies. Step 3: Remember the letter as part of preparation for the movement.

Step 1: Salt was needed in every household. Step 2: Tax on it burdened both poor and rich. Step 3: Treat salt tax as a broad public issue.

Step 1: Salt was needed by all classes. Step 2: Therefore it became a simple symbol connecting people with the movement. Step 3: Remember salt as the strength of a mass movement.

Step 1: The salt law was considered unjust. Step 2: Breaking it became the symbol of the beginning of Civil Disobedience. Step 3: Remember salt law and Civil Disobedience together.

Step 1: The Dandi March was carried out against the salt law. Step 2: Gandhi made salt at Dandi and broke the law. Step 3: Link the Dandi March with the beginning of Salt Satyagraha.

Step 1: Gandhi started the Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram. Step 2: The march aimed to break the salt law at the seashore. Step 3: Remember Sabarmati Ashram as the starting place.

Step 1: Dandi was connected with the seashore. Step 2: Gandhi made salt there and challenged the salt law. Step 3: Remember salt making as symbolic disobedience.

Step 1: Gandhi did not march alone in the Dandi March. Step 2: Seventy-eight volunteers marched with him and gave the march a disciplined form. Step 3: Remember the number as a key fact of the Dandi March.

Step 1: The Dandi March is linked with the beginning of Civil Disobedience. Step 2: It began in 1930. Step 3: Remember the year with Salt Satyagraha and Civil Disobedience.

Step 1: Civil Disobedience includes protest. Step 2: This protest is done by peacefully disobeying unjust laws. Step 3: Link the word civil with disciplined and non-violent method.

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 first sent a letter of demands. Step 2: When the demands were not accepted he began the Dandi March to break the salt law. Step 3: Link Irwin’s refusal with the background of the Dandi March.

Step 1: Poor families also used salt in food. Step 2: Tax on salt increased their cost of living. Step 3: Understand salt tax as a burden on poor people.

Step 1: The movement was open to people. Step 2: Methods included making salt refusing taxes and boycotting. Step 3: Connect participation with peaceful disobedience.

Step 1: Salt was an item of ordinary life. Step 2: Gandhi used it to challenge British law. Step 3: Link symbolic importance with salt and public life.

Step 1: Complete independence clarified the goal of freedom. Step 2: Civil Disobedience began mass struggle for that goal. Step 3: Remember the relation between goal and action.

Step 1: The government had control and tax over salt. Step 2: By making salt Gandhi challenged this law. Step 3: Treat salt making as a direct act of civil disobedience.