Question

Which of the following measures were adopted during the Civil Disobedience movement?

• A. People broke colonial laws and refused to cooperate with the British.
• B. Indians all over the subcontinent manufactured salt and demonstrated it in front of government salt factories.
• C. Foreign clothes were boycotted, and liquor shops were picketed.
• D. Peasants agreed to pay revenue and chaukidari taxes.

Answer 1

Answer: (A), (B), (C)

Foreign clothes were boycotted, and liquor shops were picketed.

The breaking of the Salt Law by Mahatma Gandhi on 6 April 1930 signalled the beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement. People broke colonial laws and refused to cooperate with the British. They manufactured salt and demonstrated it in front of government salt factories. Foreign clothes were boycotted, and liquor shops were picketed. The peasants also refused to pay revenue and chaukidari taxes. In many places, the Forest laws were also broken, and people started going into the Reserved Forests to collect wood and graze cattle.