HistoryModern India: Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist movement

In March 1930, Gandhi set out on a long walk with his followers. Iden…

In March 1930, Gandhi set out on a long walk with his followers. Identify the event.

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 2

The correct answer is Option (2) → The Dandi March

Option (1) The Bardoli satyagraha — Incorrect. Bardoli was a peasant satyagraha of 1928. Gandhiji blessed it but did not take part, so he would not be shown leading it.

Option (2) The Dandi March — Correct. The photograph is from <strong>March 1930</strong>, when Gandhiji led the <strong>Dandi March</strong> to break the salt law that gave the state a monopoly over salt.

Option (3) The campaign against the Simon Commission — Incorrect. The 1928 campaign against the Simon Commission was all-India, but Gandhiji did not join it himself.

Option (4) The Non-cooperation Movement — Incorrect. The Non-cooperation Movement had ended years earlier. In March 1930 Gandhiji was on the march to make salt at the sea.

NCERT (2026-27): “3.1 Dandi
Soon after the observance of this “Independence Day”, Mahatma Gandhi announced that he would lead a march to break one of the most widely disliked laws in British India, which gave the state a monopoly in the manufacture and sale of salt. His picking on the salt monopoly was another illustration of Gandhiji’s tactical wisdom. For in every Indian household, salt was indispensable; yet people were forbidden from making salt even for domestic use, compelling them to buy it from shops at a high price. The state monopoly over salt was deeply unpopular; by making it his target, Gandhiji hoped to mobilise a wider discontent against British rule.”

“Fig. 11.6 On the Dandi March, March 1930”