Question

Why were mounds of salt destroyed by the salt officials?

• A. Shortage of salt.
• B. To earn maximum profit.
• C. To destroy natural resources.
• D. To express nationalist movement.

Hint:

Impact: This policy inspired Gandhi’s Dandi March, where he symbolically harvested untaxed salt, exposing British greed.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

The British destroyed salt to protect their monopoly profits: 
- The passage states they destroyed salt "it cannot sell profitably" and imposed a 1,000% tax. 
- Economic Motive: By eliminating free salt, Indians were forced to buy heavily taxed British salt. 
- Rejecting Distractors: 
- Shortage (1): Contradicted by "nature produces in abundance." 
- Destroy resources (3): A side effect, not the goal. 
- Nationalism (4): Officials acted for colonial interests, not Indian causes.