Which one among the following American newsmagazines was highly sceptical of Gandhiji's Dandi march initially but within a week completely changed its opinion and saluted him as a Saint and Statesman?
- (a)Saturday Evening Post
- (b)Readers Digest
- (c)Time
- (d)Life
Correct — C, Time. The American weekly newsmagazine Time, initially sceptical of the Salt March, quickly reversed course and hailed Gandhi as a saint and statesman; it went on to name him its Man of the Year for 1930 (cover dated 5 January 1931). Of the four options, Time is the weekly news magazine that covered the Dandi March in this way.
- (a)Saturday Evening Post — The Saturday Evening Post was a general-interest American weekly known for fiction and illustrated covers, not a hard-news magazine tracking the Salt March.
- (b)Readers Digest — Reader's Digest was a monthly that condensed articles from other publications, not a newsmagazine reporting current events such as the Dandi March.
- (d)Life — In 1930 'Life' was a humour and general-interest magazine; it was relaunched as Henry Luce's photo-news weekly only in 1936, after the Salt March.
Time, founded in 1923, was the pioneering American weekly newsmagazine, and its annual 'Man of the Year' honour is a well-known marker of global influence. Gandhi's selection for 1930 reflected the worldwide impact of the Salt Satyagraha.
Rule the options by type — only Time is a weekly newsmagazine. The others are general-interest or digest publications, so they would not have 'saluted' Gandhi in a news sense during 1930.
- Time is an American weekly newsmagazine founded in 1923.
- Time named Gandhi its Man of the Year for 1930 (issue dated 5 January 1931).
- The recognition followed the Dandi Salt March and the Civil Disobedience Movement.
- 'Life' became a photo-news weekly only in 1936; Reader's Digest was a monthly digest.
- Choosing 'Life', forgetting it became a news/photo weekly only in 1936.
- Assuming a general-interest magazine (Saturday Evening Post) was the newsmagazine.
This tests awareness that Time named Gandhi Man of the Year 1930 — link the Salt March to worldwide recognition.
Which one of the following began with the Dandi March?
- (a) Home Rule Movement
- (b) Non-Cooperation Movement
- (c) Civil Disobedience Movement
- (d) Quit India Movement
Answer(c) Civil Disobedience Movement
Same event — the 1930 Dandi March, whose worldwide coverage (including Time) this question tests. The UPSC item asks which movement the march launched.
Inspired by the Dandi March by Mahatma Gandhi, in Tamilnadu, C Rajagopalachari led a salt march from
- (a) Tirunelveli to Nagercoil
- (b) Kanchipuram to Mahabalipuram
- (c) Trichinopoly to Vedaranniyam on Tanjore coast
- (d) Chennai to Vellore
Answer(c) Trichinopoly to Vedaranniyam on Tanjore coast
Same movement — the Salt Satyagraha of 1930. That NDA item covers Rajaji's Tamil Nadu salt march inspired by the very Dandi March this question is about.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Time magazine named which Indian leader its 'Man of the Year' for 1930?
- (a)Jawaharlal Nehru
- (b)Mahatma Gandhi
- (c)Subhas Chandra Bose
- (d)Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer(b) Mahatma Gandhi — following the Salt Satyagraha.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Dandi March was undertaken to protest against
- (a)the land revenue system
- (b)the salt tax and salt law
- (c)the Rowlatt Act
- (d)the partition of Bengal
Answer(b) the salt tax and salt law — Gandhi broke the salt law at Dandi.