Choosing salt in the Civil Disobedience Movement shows which strategy of Gandhi?

Correct answer: Turning an everyday issue into national resistance

The direct answer is C: choosing salt turned an everyday issue into national resistance. Salt was essential for cooking and was used by rich and poor, rural and urban people. The colonial government’s salt laws and tax made a basic necessity subject to state control, so opposition to salt restrictions could involve many sections of society. The reasoning is: choose a common need; show how colonial rule affects daily life; use peaceful civil disobedience; bring ordinary people into a national movement. Option C is correct and is illustrated by Gandhi’s 1930 Dandi March, in which he and followers challenged the salt law. Option A is wrong because the Civil Disobedience Movement was not only a military revolt; it relied on non-violent refusal of unjust laws. Option B is wrong because it was not merely a court or royal compromise. Option D is wrong because support for indigo cultivation was a different issue and does not explain the choice of salt. Memory cue: common necessity plus unjust law can create mass mobilisation.