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Explain the participation of business class in civil disobedience movement.. |
| Answer» \tDuring the First World War, Indian merchants and industrialists had made huge profits and become powerful .\tKeen on expanding their business, they now reacted against colonial policies that restricted business activities.\tThey wanted protection against imports of foreign goods, and a rupee-sterling foreign exchange ratio that would discourage imports.\tTo organise business interests, they formed the Indian Industrial and Commercial Congress in 1920 and the Federation of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FICCI) in 1927.\tLed by prominent industrialists like Purshottamdas Thakurdas and G. D. Birla, the industrialists attacked colonial control over the Indian economy, and supported the Civil Disobedience Movement when it was first launched.\tThey gave financial assistance and refused to buy or sell imported goods.\tMost businessmen came to see swaraj as a time when colonial restrictions on business would no longer exist and trade and industry would flourish without constraints | |