This Civil Disobedience Movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi in the wake of the massacre of several unarmed protesters in Amritsar, India in 1919.

The objective of this movement was to force the British Government of India to give Indians the right self-rule. In this Movement, Indians were asked to resign from government jobs, give back titles similar to "Sir" not as elevated as a knighthood and bestowed by the British and boycott foreign manufactured goods. The basic idea was to weaken the Indian economy that was based on British made products.

(i) Khadi cloth was often more expensive than mass produced mill cloth and poor people could not afford to buy it.
Thus, boycott of foreign goods could not continue for long.

(ii) Similarly, the boycott of British institutions posed a problem. No alternative institutions were set-up in their . place. So, the students, teachers and other professionals finally had to resume their studies and jobs in government institutions like schools, colleges, courts etc.