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industrialists participation in civil disobidient movement |
| Answer» The following points analyse the role of merchants and the industrialists in the Civil Disobedience Movement:\tDuring the First World War, Indian merchants and industrialists made huge profits and emerged as a powerful section. They opposed colonial policies that restricted business activities because they wanted to expand their business.\tThey wanted protection against imports of foreign goods and a rupee sterling foreign exchange ratio that would discourage imports.\tThe industrialists criticised colonial control over the Indian economy and supported the Civil Disobedience Movement at its first stage.\tThey gave financial assistance and refused to buy or sell imported goods.\tMost industrialists thought ‘Swaraj’ as a time when colonial restriction did not exist in the business world, as a result, trade and business would flourish without constraints. | |