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Salt March… (Class 10 Social Science SQP 2025-26, Q6B)

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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Sample paper, session 2025-26 · 3 marks · Short answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science sample paper 2025-26: question 6(B)

From the official CBSE sample question paper for 2025-26, section A, question 6(B), for 3 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q6(B) · 3 marks · Short answerNationalism in India

Salt March 'became an effective tool of resistance against colonialism.' Analyse the statement with suitable reasons.

Source: official sample paper from cbseacademic.nic.in (PDF). See it in the full Sample paper 2025-26.

Hints

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Hint 1

Who uses salt, and who is hurt by a tax on it?

Hint 2

What happened after Irwin ignored Gandhiji's letter?

Step-by-step solution

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  1. Gandhiji saw in salt a powerful symbol that could unite the nation, since it was consumed by rich and poor alike and the salt tax hit everyone.

    1 mark

  2. Among the eleven demands in his letter to Viceroy Irwin, the most stirring was abolition of the salt tax. Irwin's refusal to negotiate led Gandhiji to start the Salt March, which thousands joined, spreading nationalist feeling.

    1 mark

  3. People across the country broke the salt law, made salt and demonstrated at government salt factories. They also refused to pay taxes, picketed liquor shops, boycotted foreign cloth, resigned from government jobs and violated forest laws, showing unity against colonial rule.

    1 mark

Answer: Salt, a universal necessity taxed by the government, united all Indians and made defiance of the colonial law mass-based.

Where the marks are

  • Salt as unifying symbol consumed by all (1 mark)
  • Eleven demands, salt tax, Irwin's refusal and the Salt March (1 mark)
  • Salt law broken and wider non-cooperation across the country (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from Nationalism in India, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paperSample paper 2025-26: every question, by section.

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