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Post-Colonial Governments in Asia

Question 4 • CSD Summer 2026 Human Geography

Which of the following statements best describes the events of the Salt March?

Answer
A
Pakistani citizens marched north to work in Tibetan salt mines.
B
Indians marched to the sea to protest the British law that required them to buy salt from England.
C
Chinese nationalists marched 700 miles across the salt flats of southern China to flee communist rule.
D
Burmese citizens carried 700 pounds of salt out of India to establish their own trade with England.

Explanation

The Salt March was a protest against British colonial control of salt in India. In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi and his followers marched to the sea, where they made salt in defiance of British rules requiring Indians to buy taxed salt. Therefore, choice B, Indians marched to the sea to protest the British salt law, is correct.

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