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imprescriptible birthright of all. The labourer is the real sustainer of society … To the altar of this
revolution we have brought our youth as incense, for no sacrifice is too great for so magnificent a
cause. We are content. We await the advent of revolution. Inquilab Zindabad!’

3.2 How Participants saw the Civil Disobedience Movement. Pg-42,43

Participants What did swaraj Why did they Why were they disappointed?
mean to them? participate?
Rich peasant A struggle against -Being producers of Movement was called off in
communities- high revenues. commercial crops, they 1931 without the revenue
The Patidars of were very hard hit by the rates being revised.
Gujarat and trade depression and Result- So when the
the Jats of falling prices. movement was restarted in
Uttar Pradesh -They found it 1932, many of them refused to
(participated in impossible to pay the participate.
the boycott government’s revenue
programmes) demand.
-Government refused to
reduce the revenue.
The poorer Remittance of the -As the Depression -The Congress was unwilling
peasantry unpaid rent to the continued and cash to support ‘no rent’
(small tenants landlord. incomes dwindled, campaigns in most places.
cultivating land tenants found it difficult - As they were led by
they had to pay their rent. Socialists and Communists.
rented from -Congress was also
landlords) apprehensive of raising issues
that might upset the rich
peasants and landlords.
RESULT: the relationship
between the poor peasants
and the Congress remained
uncertain
Business A time when - to attack colonial -After the failure of the Round
classes colonial economic policies as Table Conference, business
Leading cotton restrictions on they were keen on groups were no longer
industrialist of business would no expanding their uniformly enthusiastic.
Rajasthan & longer business. -They were apprehensive of
Bombay exist and trade -They wanted protection the spread of militant activities
1.G.D. Birla and industry would against imports of and worried about prolonged
(Ghanshyam flourish without foreign goods and a disruption of business,
Das Birla) constraints. rupee-sterling foreign as well as of the growing
2. exchange ratio that influence of socialism amongst
Purshottamdas would discourage the younger members of the
Thakurdas imports. Congress.
-They gave it financial
assistance.

The industrial Against low wages Strikes by railway The Congress was reluctant to
working and poor working workers in 1930, dock include workers’ demands as