{"id":137533,"date":"2023-06-02T10:20:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T04:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=137533"},"modified":"2023-06-02T10:20:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T04:50:43","slug":"what-was-the-ultimate-goal-of-gandhis-salt-satyagraha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/what-was-the-ultimate-goal-of-gandhis-salt-satyagraha\/","title":{"rendered":"What was the ultimate goal of Gandhi\u2019s Salt Satyagraha?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. What was the ultimate goal of Gandhi\u2019s Salt Satyagraha?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(a) Repeal of salt laws<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(b) Curtailment of the Government\u2019s power<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) Economic relief to the common people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(d) for India \u2018Purna Swaraj\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: (d) for India \u2018Purna Swaraj\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explanation: The correct answer is (d) for India &#8216;Purna Swaraj&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ultimate goal of Gandhi&#8217;s Salt Satyagraha, also known as the Dandi March, was to achieve India&#8217;s complete independence or &#8216;Purna Swaraj&#8217; from British colonial rule. The Salt Satyagraha was a significant civil disobedience movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The specific focus of the Salt Satyagraha was the unjust salt laws imposed by the British authorities, which gave them a monopoly on the production and sale of salt in India. Gandhi believed that salt, as a basic necessity of life, should be accessible to all and should not be subjected to such oppressive laws. He saw the resistance against the salt laws as a symbol of broader resistance against British rule and exploitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Salt Satyagraha aimed to challenge and repeal the salt laws, its ultimate objective went beyond that. It sought to mobilize and unite Indians across different regions and social backgrounds in the pursuit of complete independence or &#8216;Purna Swaraj&#8217;, where India would be self-governed and free from British colonial control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. What was the ultimate goal of Gandhi\u2019s Salt Satyagraha? (a) Repeal of salt laws (b) Curtailment of the Government\u2019s power (c) Economic relief to the common people (d) for India \u2018Purna Swaraj\u2019 Ans: (d) for India \u2018Purna Swaraj\u2019 Explanation: The correct answer is (d) for India &#8216;Purna Swaraj&#8217;. The ultimate goal of Gandhi&#8217;s Salt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":137534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018],"tags":[5019],"class_list":["post-137533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-quiz","tag-upsc-history-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137535,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137533\/revisions\/137535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}