During the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930, which prohibited forest satyagraha became a prominent form of resistance against colonial forest laws in the Bilaspur and Dhamtari regions of Chhattisgarh?

💡 Solution & Explanation

The Jangal Satyagraha of 1930 in areas like Rudri-Navagaon near Dhamtari involved villagers deliberately grazing cattle and cutting grass in reserved government forests to protest against unjust colonial forest restrictions. Local leaders such as Narayan Rao Meghawale and Natthu Ji Jagtap led these non-violent protests, which faced severe police repression and imprisonment of participants. This movement mobilized rural peasantry who had been severely constrained by colonial forest management.