{"id":2890,"date":"2026-04-23T08:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:36:40","slug":"sedition-has-become-my-religion-was-the-famous-statement-given-by-gandhiji-at-the-time-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/prelims\/sedition-has-become-my-religion-was-the-famous-statement-given-by-gandhiji-at-the-time-of","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSedition has become my religion\u201d was the famous statement given by Gandhiji at the time of\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>the Champaran Satyagraha\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>publicly violating Salt Law at Dandi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>attending the Second Round Table Conference in London\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the launch of the Quit India Movement\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (b) publicly violating Salt Law at Dandi&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>With no response from the government regarding the\u00a0<strong>11 demands<\/strong>, Gandhi decided to launch the Civil Disobedience Movement. Among all the demands,\u00a0<strong>he chose to violate the\u00a0salt law<\/strong>\u00a0because the British were inhumanely taxing this\u00a0basic necessary item\u00a0and had a\u00a0near monopoly\u00a0over it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Civil Disobedience Movement (1930\u201334)<\/strong>\u00a0was launched by\u00a0<strong>Mahatma Gandhi<\/strong>\u00a0as a mass movement against British colonial rule, beginning with the\u00a0<strong>Salt Satyagraha (Dandi March)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On\u00a0<strong>12 March 1930<\/strong>, Gandhi started the historic\u00a0<strong>Dandi March<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0<strong>Sabarmati Ashram<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>78 volunteers<\/strong>, walking about\u00a0<strong>375 km to Dandi<\/strong>\u00a0on the Gujarat coast. The march lasted nearly\u00a0<strong>24 days<\/strong>, attracting widespread national and international attention. Newspapers closely followed the march, and the movement inspired mass participation across the country.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On\u00a0<strong>6 April 1930<\/strong>, Gandhi\u00a0<strong>picked up a handful of salt at Dandi<\/strong>, symbolically breaking the\u00a0<strong>British salt law<\/strong>, which had imposed a\u00a0<strong>monopoly and tax on salt production.<\/strong>\u00a0This act marked the formal beginning of the\u00a0<strong>Civil Disobedience Movement<\/strong>, encouraging Indians to openly violate unjust colonial laws.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>During this moment of defiance, Gandhi strongly criticised British rule, describing it as morally and materially destructive for India. In this context, he declared that\u00a0<strong>\u201cSedition has become my religion.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0By this statement, Gandhi meant that\u00a0<strong>resisting unjust colonial authority had become a moral duty<\/strong>, though it would be pursued strictly through\u00a0<strong>non-violent methods<\/strong>. He emphasised that the struggle was not aimed at harming individuals but at\u00a0<strong>ending an unjust system of government<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Salt Satyagraha soon triggered widespread civil disobedience across India, including\u00a0<strong>violation of salt laws, boycott of foreign goods, refusal to pay certain taxes, and mass participation of peasants, students, women, and political activists<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thus, the famous statement\u00a0<strong>\u201cSedition has become my religion\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0was made by Gandhi\u00a0<strong>while publicly violating the Salt Law at Dandi during the Civil Disobedience Movement<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (b) publicly violating Salt Law at Dandi&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[42],"years":[63],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prelims","category-upsc","tag-modern-history","years-63"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"},{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"}],"post_tag":[{"value":42,"label":"Modern History"}],"years":[{"value":63,"label":"2025"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1},{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":42,"name":"Modern History","slug":"modern-history","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":87,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}