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CBSE Chapter 2
Class: 10th CBSE
Ch: 2 Nationalism in India
NCERT History, Long answer type of questions
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Ch:2 History Important Questions for board
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What are the Limitation shown in the civil Disobedience movement?
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For long the Congress had ignored the dalits, for fear of offending the sanatanis, the conservative high-caste Hindus. But Mahatma Gandhi declared that swaraj would not come for a hundred years if untouchability was not eliminated. He called the ‘untouchables’ harijan, or the children of God, organised satyagraha to secure them entry into temples, and access to public wells, tanks, roads and schools. He himself cleaned toilets to dignify the work of the bhangi (the sweepers), and persuaded upper castes to change their heart and give up ‘the sin of untouchability’.