Question

The civil disobedience movement Started with the _______ of gandhiji.

Answer 1

Hint: Gandhiji returned to India after attending the Second Round Table Conference in 1932 and relaunched the civil disobedience movement.

Complete answer:
Mahatma Gandhi ji launched the Civil Disobedience Movement because Lord Irwin ignored Gandhi's eleven demands including the abolition of the salt tax. Gandhiji started a civil disobedience movement with the famous Dandi March.

Gandhi began his salt march from Sabarmati and reached Dandi on 6th April where he manufactured salt and broke the law. On 12 March 1930, Gandhi left the Sabarmati Ashram at Ahmedabad on foot with 78 other members of the Ashram for Dandi, a village on the western sea-coast of India, at a distance of about 385 kilometres from Ahmedabad. They reached Dandi on 6 April 1930. Gandhi walked for twenty four days covering 10 miles per day and thousands followed him. In other parts of the country also such marches was held and salt law was broken.

Along with breaking the salt law Foreign clothes were also boycotted and peasants refused to pay revenue to British government.

Forest people also broke the forest laws by entering the Reserved Forests to urge wood and graze cattle.

Note: Gandhi chose to break the salt law because in his view, it was sinful to tax salt since it is such an essential item of our food that is used by the rich or the have-not within the same quantity. The dandi march resulted within the arrest of nearly 60,000 people, including Gandhi himself.