History & Civics
How and when did the Civil Disobedience Movement start? How did the government suppress it?
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The Civil Disobedience Movement started on 12 March, 1930 when Gandhiji marched from his Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat to Dandi, along with 78 followers to break the Salt Law. Gandhiji defied the law by picking up a handful of salt formed by evaporation of sea water.
The government tried to suppress the movement by declaring the Congress illegal. The British arrested Gandhiji and thousands of protesters, carried out lathi charges, imposed fines, and used force to quell the protests, all aimed at ending the movement.
Eventually, the conflict led to the Gandhi-Irwin Pact (1931), in which the British agreed to release political prisoners and allow Indians to make salt for personal use, while Gandhi agreed to suspend the Civil Disobedience Movement.
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