Reason
- The second Civil Disobedience Movement was launched as an effect of the failure of the second Round Table Conference in 1931.
Government Reaction
- Congress was banned, arrests were made of activists, leaders, and sympathisers, properties were confiscated, and Gandhi ashrams were occupied.
- Repressions were particularly harsh on women, with the press gagged and nationalist literature banned.
People’s Reaction
- Public forms of protest were picketing of shops selling liquor and foreign cloth, illegal gatherings, non-violent demonstrations, celebrations of national days, symbolic hoistings of the national flag, non-payment of chowkidar tax, salt satyagraha, forest law violations, and installation of a secret radio transmitter.
- This phase of the civil disobedience movement coincided with upsurges in two princely states.