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Question
Explain the participation of women in the 'Civil Disobedience Movement'.
Solution
- The Civil Disobedience Movement was the large-scale participation of women.
- During Gandhiji’s salt march, thousands of women came out of their homes to listen to him.
- They participated in protest marches, manufactured salt, and picketed foreign cloth and liquor shops. Many went to jail.
- In urban areas these women were from high-caste families; in rural areas they came from rich peasant households.
- Moved by Gandhiji's call, they began to see service to the nation as a sacred duty of women.
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