Industrialists related to Civil-Disobedience Movement:
(i) Indian industrialists had made huge profits during the First World War.
(ii) They became powerful. They wanted to expand their business, they wanted protection against imports of foreign goods.
(iii) They formed the Indian Industries and Commercial Congress in1920.
(iv) They formed Federation of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries in1927.
(v) Purshotamdas, Thakurdas and G.D Birla attacked colonial control over the Indian economy and supported the Civil Disobedience Movement.
(vi) They gave financial assistance and refused to buy or sell imported goods.
