What is the specific act of civil disobedience that Gandhi is threatening to carry out?

Civil disobedience, also known as passive or non-violent resistance, is defined as purposely disobeying the law based on moral or political principles. Acts of civil disobedience are against the law, but they manifest as non-violent actions committed in the hope of political, social, or economic change.

Explanation:

i believe we're not a republic so that is a hard question

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.