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HCS (Haryana)Prelims2019General Studies
Question
Gandhiji’s famous Dandi March in March 1930 heralded the start of which movement?
Options
- A Satyagraha
- B Quit India Movement
- C Direct Action Day
- D Civil Disobedience Movement
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Correct Answer
D Civil Disobedience Movement
Model Answer
- Gandhiji's famous Dandi March in March 1930 heralded the start of the Civil Disobedience Movement movement.
- On March 12, 1930, Gandhiji set out from Sabarmati with 78 followers on a 241-mile march to the coastal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea.
- Gandhi and his supporters were to defy British policy by making salt from seawater.
- At Dandi, thousands more followed his lead, and in the coastal cities of Bombay and Karachi, Indian nationalists led crowds of citizens in making salt.
- Civil disobedience broke out all across India, soon involving millions of Indians, and British authorities arrested more than 60,000 people.
- Gandhiji himself was arrested on May 5, but the satyagraha continued without him.
- It was the start of the civil disobedience movement which commenced as Mahatma Gandhi broke the salt law on the coastal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea
- Dandi March is also known as Namak Satyagrah or Salt Satyagrah.
- The Salt March was a 24-day Salt March, which was non-violent in nature, is historically significant as it led to the mass Civil Disobedience Movement.
- Hence, option D is correct.
- On 23 April, the arrest of Congress leaders in the North-West Frontier Province led to a mass demonstration of unprecedented magnitude in Peshawar.
- Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan had been active for several years in the area, and it was his mass work that lay behind the formation of the band of non-violent revolutionaries, the Khudai Khidmatgars, popularly known as the Red Shirts who were to play an extremely active role in the Civil Disobedience Movement.