Describe the main events leading to …

The worldwide economic depression affected the country side and there was a situation of turmoil.

A Statutory Commission under Sir John Simon was set up in Britain,in response to the nationalist movement.The commission was to look into the functioning of the constitutional system of India and suggest changes.The problem was thatthe commission did not have a single Indian member,they were all British.When Simon Commission arrived India in 1928 it was greeted with the slogan 'Go Back Simon'

In December 1929,under the Presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru,the Lahore Congress formalised the demand of 'Purna Swaraj'or full independence for India.It was declared that 26th January 1930,would be celeberated as Independence Day when people were to take a pledge to struggle for complete independence..But the celeberations attracted very little attention,so Mahatma Gandhi had to find a way to relate this abstract idea of freedom to more concrete issues of everyday life.

The congress also decided to launch a civil disobedience movement under the leadership of Ghandiji.He started civil disobedience movement which is known as salt March