Question

How was the Civil Disobedience Movement different from the Non-Cooperation Movement?

Answer 1

Hint: The Civil Disobedience Movement was an active refusal to obey rules whereas the Non-Cooperation movement was launched with an aim of attaining Poorna Swaraj.

Complete answer: The active, professed refusal of an individual to obey certain rules, laws, commands, or orders is known as Civil Disobedience Movement. This movement was a nonviolent protest or peaceful resistance. The Salt March or the Salt Satyagraha was an act of the civil disobedience movement. The March was led by Mahatma Gandhi and lasted for 24 days, from March 12 to April 5 in 1930.

On 5th September 1920, Mahatma Gandhi launched the Non-Cooperation movement with an aim of obtaining full independence or Poora Swaraj and self-governance. After the Rowlatt Act of 1919 and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the Indian National Congress withdrew from the British reforms.

Both the movements were the landmark movements in the Independence struggle of the country. In 1921-22 people were asked to refuse with the colonial government but in the Civil Disobedience Movement, they were also asked to break laws. In different parts of the country, thousands of people broke the salt laws and marched in front of the British government.

The Peasants refused to pay the revenue and most importantly chaukidari taxes, foreign clothes were boycotted, the village officials resigned. The Non-Cooperation movement sought the attention of the British whereas the Civil Disobedience made the government more vulnerable by breaking laws.

Note: After brutal repression by the British government in which peaceful protestors or satyagrahis were attacked, around one lakh were arrested, Mahatma Gandhi called off the movement.