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Study the given picture carefully and answer the following questions:

 

(a) Which famous historical event does the picture depict?

(b) What movement started as a result? Why was it called off?

 

Answer:

(a) The picture depicts the Dandi March.

(b) Gandhi broke the salt law at Dandi and this started the Civil Disobedience Movement. It was called off when Gandhiji signed the 1931 Gandhi Irwin Pact. By this Pact Gandhi agreed to participate in the second Round Table Conference. The government in turn agreed to release the political prisoners who had not committed any acts of violence.