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Identify the main strands in the Civil Disobedience Movement with particular reference to the changing role of ‘business pressures’ in the country.

  • UPSC 1985
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

The Civil Disobedience Movement (1930-34) was never a single, uniform current — it was a braid of regional, class and sectional strands held together loosely by Gandhi's leadership and the symbolic Salt Satyagraha.

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  • The Core Gandhian Strand: Salt Satyagraha and Its Ramifications
  • The Peasant Strand
  • The Frontier and Princely-State Strands
  • Women and Students
  • The Business Strand: From Patronage to Conditional Support
  • Phase One: Enthusiastic Backing (1930-31)
  • …and 4 more sections, with a conclusion

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