"Sedition has become my religion" was the famous statement given by Gandhiji at the time of
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Answer: B. Gandhiji said 'I have made sedition my religion (dharma)' in a speech at Borsad on 18 March 1930, during the Dandi March, whose purpose was to publicly break the Salt Law. Breaking the law was a deliberate act of civil disobedience against British rule, so he called sedition his duty. The march and the breaking of the Salt Law at Dandi on 6 April 1930 began the Civil Disobedience Movement.
Watch for: Students mix up famous Gandhi slogans: 'Do or Die' is Quit India, 'sedition my religion' is the Salt March.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Champaran (1917) was about indigo farmers and was not framed as open sedition.
- C. At the Second Round Table Conference (1931) Gandhiji was negotiating, not defying the law.
- D. At Quit India (1942) his famous call was 'Do or Die'.
Source to check: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 43 (1930); NCERT Class XII 'Themes in Indian History Part III', chapter on Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement
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