8.1 INTRODUCTION In the earlier Unit, you read about the Non-Cooperation Movement started by the Congress. Though this movement failed to achieve its goals yet it succeeded in involving millions of people in the movement against the British Raj. After a gap of about eight years in 1930, the Congress again gave the call for a mass movement known as the Civil Disobedience Movement . The developments in the Indian situation since the withdrawal of the Non-Cooperation Movement , and the unchanging ... Learn about the background, demands, methods and response of the civil disobedience movement led by Gandhi against British colonial rule in India. The movement started with the historic Dandi March in 1930 and spread across the country through various forms of non-violent resistance. Learn about the background, features, causes, impact, and evaluation of the Civil Disobedience Movement (1930-34) led by Gandhi and the Congress. The movement was a nationwide nonviolent struggle against the British salt law and the Simon Commission. Civil disobedience is the active and professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders, or commands of a government (or any other authority). By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be called " civil ".
