Mr Hazare started another hunger strike in December but called it off and threatened instead to launch a campaign of civil disobedience that would fill the country's jails.

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Instead, the group has relaunched a campaign of civil disobedience.

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At the height of the suffragette movement in the early part of the 1900s, a campaign of civil disobedience began with women chaining themselves to railings, smashing windows and committing arson.

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