Which of the following statements about the protests and arrests that…

Which of the following statements about the protests and arrests that went along with the Salt March are correct?

(A) Across large parts of India, peasants breached the colonial forest laws that kept them and their cattle out of the woods.
(B) In some towns, factory workers went on strike.
(C) Lawyers boycotted British courts.
(D) In the wake of the Salt March, nearly 6,000 Indians were arrested.
(E) Gandhiji himself was left free while his followers were arrested.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

The correct answer is Option (1) → A, B and C only

(A) Across large parts of India, peasants breached the colonial forest laws that kept them and their cattle out of the woods. — Correct. Besides the official campaign, peasants broke the hated forest laws that kept them and their cattle out of the woods.

(B) In some towns, factory workers went on strike. — Correct. In some towns factory workers went on strike, one of the many streams of protest of the time.

(C) Lawyers boycotted British courts. — Correct. Lawyers boycotted British courts.

(D) In the wake of the Salt March, nearly 6,000 Indians were arrested. — Incorrect. The number is wrong. The rulers detained the dissenters, and nearly 60,000 Indians were arrested after the march.

(E) Gandhiji himself was left free while his followers were arrested. — Incorrect. Gandhiji was among those arrested. At Dandi he had expected arrest, but the government acted against him later.

NCERT (2026-27): “3.1 Dandi …
As with Non-cooperation, 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. In some towns, factory workers went on strike while lawyers boycotted British courts and students refused to attend government-run educational institutions. As in 1920-22, now too Gandhiji’s call had encouraged Indians of all classes to make manifest their own discontent with colonial rule. The rulers responded by detaining the dissenters. In the wake of the Salt March, nearly 60,000 Indians were arrested, among them, of course, Gandhiji himself.”