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The Salt March and the Civil Disobedience Movement-
Salt March Pg-
39,40 &41  On 31 January 1930, Gandhiji sent a letter to Viceroy Irwin
stating eleven demands.
 The most stirring of all was the demand to abolish the salt tax.
 If the demands were not fulfilled by 11 March, the letter
stated, the Congress would launch a civil disobedience
campaign. Irwin was unwilling to negotiate.

 So, Mahatma Gandhi started his famous salt march.

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Salt March-started on 12 March1930 from Sabarmati --broke the
law on 6 April 1930 -in Gujarati coastal town of Dandi

This marked the beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement.

Indians’ Response / Features of CDM

i. Thousands in different parts of the country broke the salt law,
manufactured salt and demonstrated in front of government
salt factories.
ii. Foreign cloth was boycotted
iii. and liquor shops were picketed,
iv. Peasants refused to pay revenue and chaukidaritaxes,
v. forest people violated forest laws.

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Chain of Indian Action and British reaction to 1 CDM-

a. Arrest of Congress leaders one by one.
Abdul Ghaffar Khan was arrested in April 1930, angry crowds
demonstrated in the streets of Peshawar, facing armoured cars and
police firing. Many were killed.

b. Mahatma Gandhi was arrested. Industrial workers in Sholapur
attacked police posts, municipal buildings, lawcourts and
railway stations – all structures that symbolised British rule
c. Peaceful satyagrahis were attacked, women and children
were beaten, and about 100,000 people were arrested.

Mahatma Gandhi decided to call off the movement and entered into
a pact with Irwin on 5 March 1931.Consented to participate in a
Round Table Conference in London on the condition of release the
Gandhi-Irwin Pact political prisoners.

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1 Round Table Conference in London.The conference was a
failure.
Civil Disobedience
Movement was A new cycle of repression-