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Civil disobedience
Civil disobedience is the deliberate, non-violent refusal to obey certain laws or government demands as a form of political protest. It was used on a mass scale by Mahatma Gandhi's Indian National Congress movement against British rule. These campaigns contributed to Indian independence in 1947, a decisive step in the dissolution of the British Empire.
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