'The Civil Disobedience Movement went further than the Non-Cooperation Movement.' Justify this statement with three specific points.
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Model Answer
The Civil Disobedience Movement (1930) went further than the Non-Cooperation Movement (1921) in the following ways:
- Wider social participation: Unlike Non-Cooperation, the Civil Disobedience Movement actively involved rich peasants (Patidars, Jats), business classes, industrial workers (in Nagpur region), and large numbers of women who came out of their homes for the first time.
- Active law-breaking: While Non-Cooperation focused on boycott and withdrawal, Civil Disobedience involved actively breaking colonial laws (e.g., salt law), making it a more direct challenge to British authority.
- Women's mass participation: Thousands of women participated in protest marches, manufactured salt, and picketed foreign cloth and liquor shops — a scale of female involvement not seen in the Non-Cooperation Movement.
Source: Chapter 2, Section 3.2 — How Participants Saw the Movement
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Explanation
Examiners look for three distinct, specific points — one per mark. Avoid vague statements like "more people joined." Name the groups, actions, or features that were new or larger in the Civil Disobedience Movement compared to Non-Cooperation. Women's participation and active law-breaking are the most reliable points from the textbook.