WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Indeed whilst on the one hand civil disobedience authorizes disobedience of unjust laws or unmoral laws of a state which one seeks to overthrow, it requires meek and willing submission to the penalty of disobedience and therefore cheerful acceptance of the jail discipline and its attendant hardships….

Detailed explanation-2: -On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. Britain’s Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple in the Indian diet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Question: What are the causes of the civil disobedience movement? Answer: The formation of the Simon Commission, the failure of the demand for Dominion Status, and protests against the arrest of social revolutionaries were the major causes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Civil disobedience is a ‘branch’ of ‘satyagraha’. All ‘satyagrahas’ can never be civil disobedience, whereas all cases of civil disobedience are cases of satyagraha. Gandhi said, “Its root meaning is holding on to truth, hence truth force. I have called it Love Force or Soul Force.”

Detailed explanation-5: -MK Gandhi was urged by the Congress to render his much needed leadership to the Civil Disobedience Movement. On the historic day of 12th March 1930, Gandhi inaugurated The Civil Disobedience Movement by conducting the historic Dandi Salt March, where he broke the Salt Laws imposed by the British Government.