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Purna Swaraj at Lahore meantRead the answer and worked solution →What made salt a powerful protest issue?Read the answer and worked solution →What distinguished salt-law defiance from a boycott?Read the answer and worked solution →What happened to civil disobedience under the 1931 pact?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did radicals criticise the Gandhi-Irwin Pact?Read the answer and worked solution →Which viceroy repressed renewed civil disobedience?Read the answer and worked solution →Which mission's failure preceded Quit India?Read the answer and worked solution →Quit India demanded which immediate action?Read the answer and worked solution →Which slogan did Gandhi give during Quit India?Read the answer and worked solution →What disrupted central leadership of Quit India?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was active in Quit India's underground resistance?Read the answer and worked solution →What did Satara's prati sarkar represent?Read the answer and worked solution →Which wartime advance threatened India's eastern frontier?Read the answer and worked solution →Quit India's continuation after arrests showedRead the answer and worked solution →Who established the Forward Bloc?Read the answer and worked solution →The INA recruited chiefly in which region?Read the answer and worked solution →Which country supported the INA's advance?Read the answer and worked solution →Which sequence places movements from earliest to latest?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the Cabinet Mission seek to preserve?Read the answer and worked solution →Which policy distinguished the Mountbatten Plan?Read the answer and worked solution →The Independence Act created which political units?Read the answer and worked solution →Which provinces were partitioned under the 1947 Act?Read the answer and worked solution →Under the 1947 Act, each dominion would have aRead the answer and worked solution →Who received full legislative power under the 1947 Act?Read the answer and worked solution →What happened to British paramountcy in 1947?Read the answer and worked solution →Which law temporarily governed the new dominions?Read the answer and worked solution →How was Sylhet's future to be decided in 1947?Read the answer and worked solution →Which British office did the 1947 Act abolish?Read the answer and worked solution →A dominion law's conflict with English law aloneRead the answer and worked solution →From Cabinet Mission to Mountbatten Plan: which change?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Purna Swaraj at Lahore meant

  1. provincial self-government
  2. complete independence
  3. separate communal electorates
  4. dominion self-government
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Correct answer: B. complete independence

The Lahore Congress committed itself to Purna Swaraj, meaning complete independence.

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What made salt a powerful protest issue?

  1. Its tax burden fell on exporters
  2. Its use was confined to factories
  3. It was needed in every household
  4. It was imported by most peasants
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Correct answer: C. It was needed in every household

Salt was indispensable in every household, giving a protest against its monopoly a broad social appeal.

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What distinguished salt-law defiance from a boycott?

  1. It deliberately broke a law
  2. It abandoned public protest
  3. It depended on secret violence
  4. It required legislative office
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Correct answer: A. It deliberately broke a law

Making salt defied a colonial prohibition directly, making it an act of civil disobedience.

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