Question 13 - Past Year Questions - 5 Marks - Chapter 2 Class 10 History - Nationalism in India - History

Explain the attitude of the Indian merchants and the industrialists towards the ‘Civil Disobedience Movement’.

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Points to Remember

1. Keen on expanding their business
2. Protection against imports of foreign goods .
3. Organized Indian Industrial and Commercial Congress in 1920 and Federation of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries
4. swaraj as restrictions on business would no longer exist.
5. Business groups were no longer uniformly enthusiastic.  

Answer to be written in exam

1. Keen on expanding their business , they now reacted against the colonial policies that restricted business activities .
2. They wanted protection against imports of foreign goods .
3. To organize business interests , they formed the Indian Industrial and Commercial Congress in 1920 and the Federation of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FICCI) in 1927. T hey gave financial assistance
4. Most businessmen came to see swaraj as a time when colonial restrictions on business would no longer exist and trade and industry would flourish without constraints.
5. After the failure of the Round Table Conference business groups were no longer uniformly enthusiastic. 
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