Question

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

Answer 1

Hint: One of the movements started in 1920 and ended in 1922. The other movement started in 1930 and ended in 1931.

Complete answer:
The Civil Disobedience Movement and the Non-Cooperation Movements were both very significant parts of India’s struggle for freedom. They were crucial for ensuring that India was granted independence on the 15th of August 1947. Both these movements were launched under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi.

But both these movements were very different from each other.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT	NON-COOPERATION MOVEMENT
i) It was launched on the 12th of March 1930. It began with the Salt Satyagraha.	i) This movement was launched on 5th of September 1920.
ii) It was an attempt to paralyze the governance and administration by breaking certain rules and regulations.	ii) Through this movement, Mahatma Gandhi aimed to bring the working of the British Government to a standstill by not cooperating with the administration.
iii) This movement saw a large-scale participation from the citizens as compared to the Non-Cooperation Movement.	iii) The movement saw limited participation from people and hence it was confined to certain places of the country.
iv) During this movement there was less participation from the Muslim community due to the effective use of the divide and rule policy of the British.	iv)There was a significantly large scale of Muslim citizen participating in the Non-cooperation movement, unlike the Civil Disobedience movement.
v) The Civil Disobedience Movement ended on 5th March 1931, when the Gandhi-Irwin pact was signed.	vi) The Non-Cooperation Movement ended after the Chauri-Chaura incident on 5th February 1922.

Note:
-Apart from these two movements, Mahatma Gandhi also led four other movements.
-They were the Champaran Movement of 1917, the Kheda Movement of 1918, the Khilafat Movement of 1919 and the Quit India Movement of 1942.
-At the end of the Non-Cooperation Movement, Gandhi was imprisoned by the British Government for six years.