Reason behind civil disobedience movement stopped??
As the mass movement declined, political 'realism' and certain sectional economic calculations pushed some business groups towards collaboration much as signing agreements, giving preferential treatment and lower import duty rates to british textile imports and other british commodities. yet strong objective compulsions, both economic and political, existed to prevent anything like total sell-out or unqualified collaboration by indian business groups, british insistensce on retaining the existing exchange ratio remained a permanent grievance. above all, collaboration was made difficult by fact that the years 1932-34 were marked by aa full- scale- counter -offensive by british business interests.
with lancashire in particular closely aligning itself with the ultra -tory oppositions led by churchill to any constitutional concession going beyond the simon commisions's framework.
The ultimate result of opposite pressures towards collaboration and conflict was an important re-alligment of business attitudes in support of a change in congress policy away from mass agitation and towards assembly and eventuallly ministerial participation. this re-aligment enabled indian capitalists to overcome the fairy sharp split between near loyalists and nationalists within their own ranks which had become quit marked during the early 1930's. it also fitted in with developments in the congress leaderships as it came to terms gradually with the evident decline of civil disobedience in the face of overwhelming repression.
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