Dandi March

Dandi March is a History concept from the MPSC syllabus, tested in 2 past MPSC questions (2013, 2023). Below are those real questions with their correct answers and explanations, plus the concepts worth being comfortable with first.

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2 · 2013–2023

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Civil Disobedience Movement

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Civil Disobedience MovementSalt Satyagraha in Maharashtra

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दांडीयात्रेचा उल्लेख 'रामाचा लंकेवरील ऐतिहासिक मोर्चा' असे कोणी केला ? Who remarked about the 'Dandi Yatra' as, Rama's Historical March to Lanka ?

a)पंडित मोतीलाल नेहरू आणि डी. जी. तेंडुलकर / Pandit Motilal Nehru and D. J. Tendulkar✓ Correct

b)पी. सी. रे आणि डी. पी. मिश्रा / P. C. Ray and D. P. Mishra

c)शंकरराव देव आणि ग. वि. केतकर / Shankarrao Dev and G. V. Ketkar

d)अप्पासाहेब पटवर्धन आणि सुहासिनी नबीयार / Appasaheb Patwardhan and Suhasini Nambiyar

The historical description of Dandi Yatra as 'Rama's Historical March to Lanka' was a famous poetic analogy used by contemporary chroniclers/leaders.

सविमय कायदेभंगाच्या चळवळीचे उद्दिष्ट कोणते? / What was the aim of the Civil Disobedience Movement?

1)कायदे मोडून प्रशासनाला जेरीस आणणे. / Paralysing the administration by taking law into the hands.✓ Correct

2)सरकारकडून अधिक मागण्या मान्य करून घेणे. / Make the government concede more demands.

3)गोलमेज परिषदेत काँग्रेससाठी स्थान मिळवणे. / Secure a place for the Congress in the Round Table Conference.

4)वैयक्तिक सत्याग्रह लोकप्रिय करणे. / To popularise individual Satyagraha.

The primary aim of the Civil Disobedience Movement (1930) was complete disobedience of British laws, famously initiated with the Dandi March and breaking the salt tax.

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