✓ Board-verified
Social Science · 2022 · 2 marks
CBSE 2022 · Region 1 · Set 1 · Q1
Why did Indian merchants and industrialists support the Civil Disobedience Movement? Explain.
Why did Indian merchants and industrialists support the Civil Disobedience Movement? Explain.
Marking-scheme solution
(i) They wanted protection against imports of foreign goods.
(ii) They wanted protection against rupee-sterling foreign exchange ratio to discourage imports.
(iii)They formed FICCI to organize their business interests.
(iv) They criticised colonial control over the Indian economy
(v) They saw Swaraj to end colonial restrictions on business.
More from Nationalism in India
- How did people belonging to different communities, regions or language groups develop a sense of collective belonging in the National Movement?…2024
- Mention any two causes that led to the Non-Cooperation Movement.2022
- Analyse the role of the business classes in Civil Disobedience Movement. OR Analyse the role of women in Civil Disobedience Movement.2023
- Read the given case and answer the questions that follow: Mahatma Gandhi's thoughts on Satyagraha 'It is said of"passive resistance"that it is the…2022
- "Plantation workers had their own understanding of Mahatma Gandhi and the notion of Swaraj. "Support the statement. OR "Mahatma Gandhi found salt as…2023
- "Gandhiji felt the Khilafat issue as an opportunity to bring Hindus and Muslims under the umbrella of a unified national movement." Explain the…2023
- Why did Mahatma Gandhiji travel to Champaran in Bihar in 1917? Explain.2022
- Arrange the following in chronological order and choose the correct option: I. Gandhi-Irwin Pact II. Rowlatt Act III. Poona Pact IV. Khilafat Movement2026
CBSE Class 10 Social Science past-paper question from the 2022 board exam, with the answer as CBSE’s own marking scheme gives it. Where our answers come from.