Civil Disobedience movement -1930 in Indian History

Civil Disobedience movement -1930 in Indian History:

  • In 1930, Gandhiji launched the Civil Disobedience Movement.
  • In 1929 INC adopted ‘Poorna Swaraj’ (complete independence) as its goal at the Lahore session of the congress under the Presidentship of Nehru. It also decided for launching a Civil Disobedience Campaign.
  • At midnight on 31 December 1929, Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled the newly adopted Tricolour Flag of freedom on the bank of river Ravi.
  • 26 January 1930 was fixed as the first independent day.
  • The Civil Disobedience Movement was started by Gandhiji with his famous Dandi March
  • He started his Salt Satyagraha or the Dandi March on the morning of 12 March 1930 with a band of 78 volunteers. It was 385km (240 miles) Journey from Sabarmati Ashram at Ahmedabad to Dandi on the West Coast. On April 5, at 6 in the morning Gandhiji and his volunteers picked up Salt lying on the sea-shore. (Sarojini Naidu, at this hailed Gandhiji as ‘‘Law breaker’’)
  • In Tamil Nadu C. Rajagopalachari led a Salt March from Trichirapalli to Vedaranyam on the Tanjore Coast. He was arrested on 30 April, 1930.
  • In Malabar K. Kelappan, the hero of the Vaikkom Satyagraha, walked from Calicut to Payyannur to break the Salt law.
  • Gandhiji was arrested on May 5, 1930. After his arrest his place was taken by Abbas Tyabji and after the arrest of Abbas leadership passed on to Sarojini Naidu.
  • Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy called the decision of Gandhi as a ‘Kindergarten stage’ of revolution.
  • Irwin called Gandhi’s breaking of salt law as a ‘Storm in a tea cup’
  • ‘Salt suddenly became a mysterious word, a word of power’’ These words were spoken by Nehru on the occassion of Salt Satyagraha.
  • On 18, April 1930 Chittagong Armoury was raided by Surya sen.
  • On 23 April 1930, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Khudai Khidmatgar activated the NWFP leading to rioting where the Hindu Gahrwal Rifles refused to fire on Muslim rioters.
  • Darshana Salt Works (21 may) Satyagraha led by Sarojini Naidu, Imam Saheb and Manilal Gandhi.

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