Correct answer: A. People hugged trees to stop felling
Explanation: Non-violent resistance means opposing an unjust action without using physical violence or weapons against people. In the Chipko Movement, villagers, including many women, protected forests by embracing or holding on to trees so that contractors could not cut them easily. Their bodies and collective presence became a peaceful barrier. The protest expressed dependence on forests for soil, water, fuel, fodder, and local life, while challenging destructive commercial felling. It was a form of public participation and environmental action.
Option A is correct because hugging trees to prevent their felling directly describes the method that gave the movement its name. Attacking an armoury and looting a treasury would involve violence or unlawful force, and increasing a tax has no connection with the movement’s method. The movement’s exact local events were varied, but its defining image was peaceful protection of trees. Therefore the supplied answer correctly identifies non-violent resistance.