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Social Science · 2025 · 2 marks
Nationalism in IndiaThe Salt March and the Civil Disobedience Movement2 marksUnderstandvery short answer
CBSE 2025 · Region 5 · Set 1 · Q21
(a) How did 'salt' become a powerful weapon to unite the country in the 'Civil Disobedience Movement'? Explain any two causes.
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How did 'salt' become a powerful weapon to unite the country in the 'Civil Disobedience Movement' ? Explain any two causes.
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How did the colonial government suppress the 'Civil Disobedience Movement' ? Explain.
Marking-scheme solution
(i) The Civil Disobedience Movement began with the breaking of the salt law.
(ii) Salt was something consumed by the rich and the poor alike.
(iii) It was one of the most essential items of food.
(iv) The tax on salt and the government monopoly over its production revealed the most oppressive face of British rule.
(b) How did the colonial government suppress the ‘Civil Disobedience Movement’? Explain.
(i) The colonial government began arresting the Congress leaders one by one.
(ii) This led to violent clashes in many places.
(iii) Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a devout disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, was arrested in April 1930.
(iv) Angry crowds demonstrated in the streets of Peshawar, facing armoured cars and police firing.
(v) Many people were killed.
(vi) A month later, Mahatma Gandhi himself was arrested.
(vii) Industrial workers in Sholapur attacked police posts, municipal buildings, lawcourts and railway stations – all structures that symbolised British rule.
(viii) A frightened government responded with a policy of brutal repression.
(ix) Peaceful satyagrahis were attacked, women and children were beaten, and many were arrested.
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