Question

: Under the leadership of __________ the Dharasana satyagraha took place.
a. Sarojini Naidu
b. Kasturba Gandhi
c. Madam Cama
d. Vijayalaxmi Pandit

Answer 1

Hint:
 In Valsad, Gujarat, India, adjacent to Dandi, Dharasana is a city. In May 1930, as the site of the Dharasana Satyagraha, it shot to worldwide fame, an immediate follow up to the Dandi salt march.


Complete step by step solution:

What ?
In Valsad, Gujarat, India, adjacent to Dandi, Dharasana is a city. In May 1930, as the site of the Dharasana Satyagraha, it shot to worldwide fame, an immediate follow up to the Dandi salt march.
Darsana Satyagraha was a protest against the British salt tax. As the next protest against British rule, Mahatma Gandhi chose a non-violent raid of the Dharasana Salt Works in Gujarat following the end of the Salt March to Dandi.
At Dharasana, hundreds of Satyagrahis were beaten by soldiers under British orders. The subsequent publicity drew international attention to the campaign for Indian independence and challenged the validity of India's British rule.

When?
Dharasana Satyagraha was a demonstration in colonial India in May 1930, against the British salt levy.
Abbas Tyabji and Gandhi 's wife, Kasturba, led the Dharasana Satyagraha.
Until reaching Dharasana, both were convicted and sentenced to three months in prison.
The peaceful movement under the leadership of Sarojini Naidu and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad continued after their arrests.

Why ?
For the civil disobedience movement, Mahatma Gandhi declared opposition to British salt policies to be the unifying theme and thus began Dandi March.
Salt was chosen to symbolise the beginning of the movement of civil disobedience because salt was considered to be something that each Indian had the fundamental right to do.
Civil disobedience broke out all across India, soon involving millions of Indians, and British authorities arrested more than 60,000 people. Gandhiji himself was arrested on May 5, but the satyagraha continued without him.
On May 21, at the Dharasana Salt Works, some 150 miles north of Bombay, the poet Sarojini Naidu led 2,500 marchers. Documented by American journalist Webb Miller, the incident caused an international uproar in India against British policy.


Hence, the correct answer is option A.

Note:
The revolution was an important step in the development of the fight for independence.
Having collapsed, the Gandhi-Irwin Pact (1931) and the Second Round Table Conference (1931) revived the movement with new zeal.