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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2025, set 32/4/1 · 5 marks · Long answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2025: question 30(B)

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2025, paper 32/4/1, section D, question 30(B), for 5 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q30(B) · 5 marks · Long answerNationalism in India

How did the Civil Disobedience Movement become a mass movement? Explain with examples.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2025 board paper, set 32/4/1.

Hints

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Hint 1

Start with the event that began the movement.

Hint 2

Think of different laws people defied.

Hint 3

Which groups of society participated?

Step-by-step solution

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  1. The Dandi March began with 78 volunteers to break the salt law and was joined by thousands. Thousands broke the salt law by making salt and demonstrating before government salt factories.

    1 mark

  2. Peasants refused to pay revenue and chowkidari tax, and forest people entered reserved forests to collect wood and graze cattle.

    1 mark

  3. Foreign cloth was boycotted and liquor shops were picketed.

    1 mark

  4. Rich peasants (Patidars and Jats) and poor peasants took part, and Indian industrialists and workers also joined.

    1 mark

  5. Women took part on a large scale, joining marches, making salt and picketing.

    1 mark

Answer: Salt law defiance, refusal of taxes, forest law violation, boycott and picketing, and participation of peasants, industrialists, workers and women made it a mass movement.

Where the marks are

  • Dandi March and salt law broken by thousands (1 mark)
  • Refusal of revenue and chowkidari tax, forest laws defied (1 mark)
  • Boycott of foreign cloth and picketing of liquor shops (1 mark)
  • Participation of peasants, industrialists and workers (1 mark)
  • Large-scale participation of women (1 mark)

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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 paper2025 board paper, set 32/4/1: every question, by section.

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