"Sedition has become my religion" was the famous statement given by Gandhiji at the time of

Answer: (b) publicly violating Salt Law at Dandi

Gandhi said this in his speech at Borsad on 18 March 1930, during the Salt March that ended with the breaking of the salt law at Dandi. He called sedition his dharma and said he was beginning his peaceful war against the Government by violating the salt law.

• ✗ (a) The remark belongs to the 1930 Salt March, not to the Champaran Satyagraha.
• ✓ (b) In the Borsad speech he said he was 'commencing' his war on the Government 'by violating the salt law'. NCERT records that the march set out on 12 March 1930 and that at its end he made a fistful of salt, breaking the law.
• ✗ (c) The Second Round Table Conference in London came after the 1930 civil disobedience campaign; the speech was made on the march itself.
• ✗ (d) The Quit India Movement was launched years later, in 1942; it is unconnected with this speech.

Remember · Gandhi's 'sedition my dharma' remark: Borsad speech, 18 March 1930, during the Salt March, when he said he was starting his peaceful war by violating the salt law.

📘 Read it in NCERT: Class 12 Themes in Indian History, Part III, Ch 3 (practise this chapter)

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