Explain the circumstances under which Gandhiji decided to call off the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1931.
Gandhiji decided to call off the Civil Disobedience movement in 1931 because:

Political leaders like Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan were arrested. More than one lakh people were arrested.
The government responded with brutal repression, and peaceful Satyagrahis were arrested. Women and children were beaten up.
It resulted in an uprising in Peshawar in 1930.
Industrial workers in Sholapur attacked a police post. In Chittagong, the revolutionaries captured the armory, and a pitched battle was fought between the government troops and the revolutionaries.