(a) Analyse the role of the business classes in Civil Disobedience Movement.

(i) Indian merchants and industrialists wanted to expand their business so they reacted against colonial policies in the Civil Disobedience Movement.

(ii) They wanted protection against imports of foreign goods, and a rupee- sterling foreign exchange.

(iii) To organise business interests, they formed the Indian Industrial and Commercial Congress in $\displaystyle 1920$ and FICCI in1927.

(iv) FICCI was formed by prominent industrialists like Purshottamdas Thakurdas and G.D. Birla

(v) The industrialists attacked colonial control over the Indian economy.

(vi) They gave financial assistance and refused to buy and sell imported goods.

(B) Analyse the role of women in Civil Disobedience Movement.

(i) Large-scale participation of women in Civil Disobedience Movement.

(ii) During Gandhiji Salt March thousands of women came out of their homes to listen to Gandhiji.

(iii) They participated in protest marches.

(iv) They manufactured salt

(v) They picked foreign cloth and liquor shops.

(vi) Many were also arrested and sent to jail for participating in these activities.

(vii) Their presence was merely symbolic in the INC.