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Social Science · 2023 · 5 marks
CBSE 2023 · Region 2 · Set 3 · Q30
(a) "Plantation workers had their own understanding of Mahatma Gandhi and the notion of Swaraj. "Support the statement.
(a)
"Plantation workers had their own understanding of Mahatma Gandhi and the notion of Swaraj. "Support the statement.
OR
(b)
"Mahatma Gandhi found salt as a powerful symbol that could unite the nation. "Support the statement.
Marking-scheme solution
(i) For plantation workers in Assam, freedom meant the right to move freely in and out of the confined space in which they were enclosed.
(ii) Plantation workers defied the Inland Immigration Act.
(iii) They interpreted Swaraj in their own ways.
(iv) They also related themselves with Swatantra Bharat and started relating them with all India agitation.
(v) They believed that Gandhi Raj was coming and everyone would be given land in their own village.
(vi) Stranded on the way by a railway and steamers strike plantation workers were caught up by the police and were brutally beaten up.
(b) “Mahatma Gandhi found salt as powerful symbol that could unite the nation.” Support the statement.
(i) Salt was something consumed by the rich and the poor alike.
(ii) It was one of the most essential items of food.
(iii) The tax on salt and the government monopoly over its production revealed the most oppressive face of British rule.
(iv) Irwin was unwilling to negotiate.
(v) So Mahatma Gandhi started his famous Salt March accompanied by his trusted volunteers from Sabarmati to Dandi.
(vi) Thousands came to hear Mahatma Gandhi views on Satyagraha and Swaraj.
(vii) Mahatma Gandhi urged people to peacefully defy the British.
(viii) At Dandi, he along-with followers defied the law, manufactured salt by boiling sea water.
(ix) This marked the beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement.
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