Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond
Class 12 · History · 18 Questions
You have read about rumours in Chapter 10 and seen that the circulation of rumours tells us about the structure of the belief of a time: they tell us about the mind of the people who believe in the rumours and the circumstances that make this belief possible. What do you think these rumours about Gandhiji reflect?
Why was salt destroyed by the colonial government?
Why did Mahatma Gandhi consider the salt tax more oppressive than other taxes?
Read Sources 5 and 6. Write an imaginary dialogue between Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi on the issue of separate electorates for the Depressed Classes.
What do the letters tell us about the way Congress ideals developed over time?
Do such letters give us any special insight into the working of the Congress, and into the nature of the national movement?
Why do you think the Home Department was continuously reporting on what people thought about the possibility of Mahatma Gandhi's arrest? Reread what Gandhiji said about the question of arrests in his speech on 5 April 1930 at Dandi.
Why do you think Mahatma Gandhi was not arrested?
Why do you think the Home Department continued to say that the march was not evoking any response?
How did Mahatma Gandhi seek to identify with the common people?
How was Mahatma Gandhi perceived by the peasants?
Why did the salt laws become an important issue of struggle?
Why are newspapers an important source for the study of the national movement?
Why was the charkha chosen as a symbol of nationalism?
How was non-cooperation a form of protest?
Why were the dialogues at the Round Table Conference inconclusive?
In what way did Mahatma Gandhi transform the nature of the national movement?
What do private letters and autobiographies tell us about an individual? How are these sources different from official accounts?