SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 19 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 4 of 100

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The Salt Satyagraha of 1930 was a direct civil disobedience movement against which British policy?

(a)The imposition of heavy taxes on land revenue.
(b)The British monopoly on the manufacture and sale of salt.
(c)The restrictions on the movement and assembly of Indians.
(d)The introduction of separate electorates for different communities.

Answer

Why

Correct — B. The target was the salt law. The Salt Act of 1882 gave the British a monopoly on the collection and manufacture of salt and levied a salt tax, so Indians could not freely make the salt the sea gave them.

Gandhi broke that law at Dandi on 6 April 1930 by picking up salt → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
The imposition of heavy taxes on land revenue. — A cut in land revenue was among Gandhi's eleven demands to Irwin, but the march broke the salt law. The land-revenue campaign was the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928.
(c)
The restrictions on the movement and assembly of Indians. — The marchers defied the salt law by making and taking salt, not a ban on assembly. Curbs on civil liberties had drawn an earlier campaign, the Rowlatt Satyagraha of 1919.
(d)
The introduction of separate electorates for different communities. — Separate electorates date from the Indian Councils Act of 1909. Their extension by the Communal Award of 1932 led to the Poona Pact, two years after the salt march.

Concept

The Salt Satyagraha opened the Civil Disobedience Movement. Salt was a necessity for every Indian, and anyone could break the law by making it from sea water.

Gandhi set out from Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March 1930 with 78 marchers and walked about 387 km (240 miles) to Dandi. He reached it on 5 April and broke the law on the morning of 6 April 1930. He was arrested on the night of 4-5 May 1930.

Other salt campaigns followed the same model. C. Rajagopalachari marched from Tiruchirappalli to Vedaranyam, and after Gandhi's arrest Sarojini Naidu led the satyagraha at the Dharasana salt works.

Key facts

The Salt Act of 1882 gave the British a monopoly on the collection and manufacture of salt and levied a salt tax.
The Dandi March left Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March 1930 with 78 marchers.
Gandhi broke the salt law at Dandi on 6 April 1930.
Lord Irwin was Viceroy of India during the march.

Study next

The Civil Disobedience Movement and the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of 1931Gandhi's eleven demands to Lord IrwinThe Dharasana and Vedaranyam salt satyagrahas

Common traps

Picking land revenue because it was one of Gandhi's eleven demands: the march itself broke the salt law.
Treating the grievance as a tax alone: the law also barred Indians from making salt, which is why making it was the act of defiance.

The same march is asked from the Viceroy's side on 12 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.11: Lord Irwin was in office when it began on 12 March 1930.

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