This presentation covers the following topics:

►Beginning of the Civil Disobedience

►What is Civil Disobedience.

►Dandi March.

►The Round Table Conference.

►The Poona Pact.

Beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement

→The Simon Commission

→Rejection of the Nehru Report

→Demand of Purna Swaraj or Complete Independence.

Dandi March 12th March 1930 Gandhiji set out……..

Along with his followers, people from different villages joined him.

He reached Dandi on 5th April. The next day he broke the Salt Act.

Sabarmati Ashram

Salt an essential commodity

Dandi beach

Babu Genu

Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

•Mill worker

•Threw himself in front of a truck

•Sacrificed his life

•North – West Frontier

•Also known as Badshah Khan

• He started the Khuda-i- Khidmatgar movement.

The Civil Disobedience Movement then spread all over the country.

•People started cutting trees.

•They broke the forest laws.

•Peasants refused to pay land revenue.

•The mill workers observed hartals.

Kasturba Gandhi

Hansaben Mehta

Kamala Nehru

Sarojini Naidu

Some of the women who actively participated……..

Women participated in large numbers.

They opposed shops selling foreign goods.

They opposed shops selling liquor.

Many suffered imprisonment.

They faced the police courageously.

The Round Table ConferenceTo prepare a political framework

3 Round Table Conferences were held in London.

Dr. B.R.Ambedkar attended all the three Conferences.

Congress did not participate in the 1st Conference.

Gandhiji attended the 2nd Conference.

They demanded freedom for India but were not granted.

Not a single representative attended the 3rd Conference.

Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar

•Democratic system of Government.

•Separate electorate for dalits

Ramsey MacdonaldBritish Prime Minister

•Announced the Communal Award

•Dalits were given separate electorates

•Gandhiji started fast unto death

•Yerawada prison

• Dalits had 148 seats reserved.

•This compromise is called the Poona Pact.

•Gandhiji ended his fast.

Poona Pact

Evaluation1.What is meant by Civil

Disobedience?

2.Name any two women who participated in the civil disobedience movement?

3.What demand was made by Gandhiji in the second conference?

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