Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist movement

Question:

Which of the following is NOT true in respect of the movement launched by Gandhiji to break salt law?

Options:

Apart from the officially sanctioned nationalist campaign, there were numerous other streams of protest

Across large parts of India, peasants breached the hated colonial forest laws that kept them and their cattle out of the woods in which they had once roamed freely.

Factory workers went on strike while lawyers boycotted British courts and students refused to attend government-run educational institutions.

None of the above

Correct Answer:

None of the above

Explanation:

As with Non-cooperation, apart from the officially sanctioned nationalist campaign, there were numerous other streams of protest in Salt protest. Across large parts of India, peasants breached the hated colonial forest laws that kept them and their cattle out of the woods in which they had once roamed freely. In some towns, factory workers went on strike while lawyers boycotted British courts and students refused to attend government-run educational institutions.