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
Correct — C, Trichinopoly to Vedaranniyam on Tanjore coast. When the Civil Disobedience Movement opened in 1930, C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji) organised Tamil Nadu's answer to Gandhi's Dandi March: a salt satyagraha march of about 150 miles from Tiruchirappalli (Trichinopoly) to the coastal village of Vedaranyam on the Tanjore (Thanjavur) coast. The march ran from 13 to 28 April 1930; on reaching the sea the volunteers made salt in defiance of the British salt law and were arrested.
- (a)Tirunelveli to Nagercoil — This is an unrelated south-Tamil-Nadu place-pair; Rajaji's 1930 salt march was from Trichinopoly to Vedaranyam, not in the Tirunelveli-Nagercoil belt.
- (b)Kanchipuram to Mahabalipuram — Kanchipuram and Mahabalipuram are temple-heritage towns near Chennai, not the route of the salt satyagraha, which ended at the Vedaranyam saltpans on the Tanjore coast.
- (d)Chennai to Vellore — Both are inland from the salt-making coast; the salt march had to reach the sea at Vedaranyam, so a Chennai-Vellore route makes no sense for a salt satyagraha.
The Civil Disobedience Movement (1930) opened with Gandhi's Dandi March (Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi on the Gujarat coast, 12 March-6 April 1930), which broke the British salt monopoly. Parallel salt satyagrahas were then led across India — C. Rajagopalachari at Vedaranyam in Tamil Nadu, and K. Kelappan in Malabar — each defying the salt law by making salt from seawater.
The distractors are all Tamil Nadu place-pairs, so the giveaway is the logic of a salt march: it must end at the sea, at saltpans. Vedaranyam, on the Tanjore coast, is exactly such a salt-producing shore, which is why Rajaji chose it as the destination from his inland start at Trichinopoly.
- Gandhi's Dandi March: Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi (Gujarat coast), 12 March-6 April 1930.
- Rajaji's Vedaranyam salt march: Trichinopoly (Tiruchirappalli) to Vedaranyam (Tanjore coast), 13-28 April 1930.
- Both defied the British salt tax/monopoly by manufacturing salt from seawater.
- The Vedaranyam march was Tamil Nadu's principal contribution to the 1930 salt satyagraha.
- C. Rajagopalachari later became independent India's first (and only) Indian Governor-General.
- Confusing Rajaji's Trichinopoly-Vedaranyam route with Gandhi's Sabarmati-Dandi route.
- Picking an inland place-pair for what must be a coastal (salt-making) march.
Who led which regional salt satyagraha, and from where to where.
In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi started Civil Disobedience Movement from
- (a) Sevagram
- (b) Dandi
- (c) Sabarmati
- (d) Wardha
Answer(c) Sabarmati
Same event that inspired Rajaji — the 1930 Salt Satyagraha that opened the Civil Disobedience Movement, here tested on Gandhi's starting point (Sabarmati).
Match List I (Events) with List II (Results): I. Morley Minto Reforms, II. Simon Commission, III. The Chauri-Chaura incident, IV. The Dandi March — with A) Country-wide agitation, B) Withdrawal of a movement, C) Communal Electorates, D) Communal outbreaks, E) Illegal manufacture of salt.
- (a) I-C, II-D, III-E, IV-B
- (b) I-D, II-A, III-B, IV-C
- (c) I-B, II-C, III-D, IV-E
- (d) I-C, II-A, III-B, IV-E
Answer(d) I-C, II-A, III-B, IV-E — the Dandi March pairs with the illegal manufacture of salt
Pins the Dandi March to its defining act — the illegal manufacture of salt — the very salt-law defiance Rajaji repeated at Vedaranyam.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Gandhi's Dandi March, which launched the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930, started from which place?
- (a)Wardha
- (b)Sabarmati Ashram
- (c)Sevagram
- (d)Porbandar
Answer(b) Sabarmati Ashram (near Ahmedabad), ending at Dandi on the Gujarat coast.
- practice — not a real PYQ
C. Rajagopalachari is remembered as which of the following in independent India?
- (a)First President of India
- (b)First Indian Governor-General of India
- (c)First Home Minister of India
- (d)First Vice-President of India
Answer(b) First Indian Governor-General of India (1948-50).