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Show how the Civil Disobedience was marked by much scattered potentially radical manifestations. Was the Karachi Congress an indication of certain basic weakness of the entire movement?

  • UPSC 1992
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

The Civil Disobedience Movement (1930-34), for all its Gandhian discipline, repeatedly threw up local outbursts that exceeded the sanctioned, non-violent, negotiable framework Gandhi had designed — and the Karachi Congress (March 1931), precisely because it tried to fold radical economic demands into a movement built on class-collaborative Satyagraha, exposed real fault-lines in the Congress's strategy.

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  • Scattered Radical Manifestations Within Civil Disobedience
  • Sholapur: The Virtual Parallel Government
  • Chittagong Armoury Raid
  • Peshawar and the Garhwal Rifles
  • Agrarian No-Rent and No-Revenue Campaigns
  • Bengal and Bihar: Anti-Chowkidari Tax Militancy
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