Question

Why did the Patidars of Gujarat and the Jats of UP participate in the civil Disobedience Movement?
A.They wanted to own the land holdings they were cultivating.
B.They wanted to cultivate food crops instead of cash crops.
C.They wanted reduction in taxes on agricultural income.
D.They wanted reduction of rents on their land holdings.

Answer 1

Hint: The rich peasants such as Patidars of Gujarat and Jats of Uttar Pradesh were active in organizing their communities and forcing their reluctant members to participate in the programmes. The serious and severe fall in prices and the effect of trade depression led to a fall in cash income. And this problem further increased with the government’s refusal of lowering down revenue demands.

Complete answer:
The Patidars of Gujarat and the Jats of Uttar Pradesh organized non violent campaigns against the high land revenue demand of the British.The Patidars of Gujarat and Jats of Uttar Pradesh were producers of commercial crops; they were badly hitted hard by the trade depression and decreasing prices of the crops and it was quite impossible to pay the government revenue demand and thus they became passionate supporters of the Civil Disobedience Movement. These rich peasants used to produce commercial crops due to decrease in the income and trade depression. Therefore , due to decrease in the cash income, they found it difficult to pay governments revenue demands . They had to sell their raw materials at random prices.Government refused to reduce the revenue demand and thus the peasants became enraged and active in the Civil Disobedience Movement.

Hence, the correct answer is option (C).

Note:The rejection of the government to decrease the revenue demand led to the spread of anger and resentment. For them, the fight against high revenue was a struggle and thus they supported boycott programmes. Women also took part in this movement.