ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Civil disobedience is both a political tactic and the basis of movements that advocate social change. It is a nonviolent action engaged in by an individual who refuses to obey a law for moral or philosophical reasons.

Detailed explanation-2: -civil disobedience, also called passive resistance, the refusal to obey the demands or commands of a government or occupying power, without resorting to violence or active measures of opposition; its usual purpose is to force concessions from the government or occupying power.

Detailed explanation-3: -Civil disobedience can be defined as refusing to obey a law, a regulation or a power judged unjust in a peaceful manner. Civil disobedience is, therefore, a form of resistance without violence.

Detailed explanation-4: -Legal forms of protest (dissent) are permitted, while illegal acts (civil disobedience) are subject to the full force of criminal law – so long as the government can demonstrate the criminal law is reasonably justified in a free and democratic society.

Detailed explanation-5: -Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, Rosa Parks, and other activists in the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, used civil disobedience techniques. Among the most notable civil disobedience events in the U.S. occurred when Parks refused to move on the bus when a white man tried to take her seat.