Previous Year Question
During the Dandi Salt March, which of the following social activists persuaded Gandhiji not to restrict the movements to men alone?
Correct Answer: C
Detailed Solution
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a prominent social activist, freedom fighter and advocate of women's participation in public life.
When Gandhi began the original Dandi March on 12 March
1930, women were not included in the initial marching group. Women's organisations and individual women activists protested against their exclusion, and Gandhi subsequently permitted women to participate fully in the wider Salt Satyagraha and Civil Disobedience Movement.
Kamaladevi herself actively violated the salt laws. In Bombay, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and Avantikabai Gokhale were among the first group that went to the seashore to prepare salt by boiling seawater.