Civil Disobedience Movement

The Dandi March challenged the colonial salt law, which gave the government a monopoly over salt production and taxation. Gandhi and his followers walked from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi and made salt there in April 1930. Forest, railway, and education laws were not the direct issue of this march.

Gandhi began the Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March 1930 and reached Dandi on 6 April. There he broke the colonial salt law, making the march a dramatic beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement. Thus 1930 is correct. 1919 relates to the Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh, 1920 to Non-Cooperation, and 1942 to Quit India.

Salt was chosen because every person, rich or poor, needed it, and the colonial government controlled its production and imposed a salt tax. Challenging the salt law therefore turned a specific economic grievance into a simple issue that ordinary people could understand and join. It was not a luxury limited to the rich. Consequently, option A is correct.

Gandhi began the Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad on 12 March 1930. He and his followers walked to the coastal village of Dandi, where he broke the salt law by making salt. Champaran, Lahore and Calcutta were important places in other episodes of the national movement, but they were not the starting point of this march. Therefore A is correct.

Civil Disobedience meant openly and non-violently refusing to obey selected unjust colonial laws. Participants accepted the legal consequences to demonstrate that such laws lacked moral legitimacy and to pressure the government for political change. The aim was public resistance and self-rule, not private profit, military formation or strengthening Company rule. Thus option A is correct.