Due to their individual, constrained motivations, the various classes and groups of Indians took part in the Civil Disobedience Movement.

• Businessmen understood the term "swaraj" to refer to a period when trade and industry would flourish free from colonial restraints.
• Similarly to rich peasant classes, swaraj was a struggle against high land revenue.

• Women took swaraj as the attainment of elevated status and equality with men in Indian society.

• Poor peasants looked forward to swaraj as the day they would possess their own land and no longer have to pay rent or beg.

• Working class dreamed of high wages and excellent working conditions. Hence, swaraj was different for different classes and groups of Indians.