Question

Two places ‘A’ and ‘B’ have been marked on the given political outline map of India. Identify them with the help of the following information and write their correct names on the lines drawn near them:

A. The place where the session of Indian National Congress was held in 1927.
B. The place where Gandhiji broke the Salt Law.

Hint:

Deal with the two markers by their location. A coastal village in Gujarat can only be the place of the salt march, and the remaining clue about the 1927 Congress session then belongs to the marker on the Tamil Nadu coast.

Answer 1

Concept:

• A map identification question is answered by first working out the name from the historical clue, and then checking that the name sits where the marker has been placed.
• Both clues here belong to the chapter on nationalism in India, one to an annual Congress session and one to the Civil Disobedience Movement.

Step 1: Work out the place for the first clue.
The annual session of the Indian National Congress in 1927 was held at Madras, known today as Chennai. It was at this session that the Congress resolved to boycott the Simon Commission.
On the map this is the marker on the eastern coast of the peninsula, in Tamil Nadu.

Step 2: Work out the place for the second clue.
Gandhiji broke the salt law at Dandi, a coastal village in Gujarat, on 6 April 1930, after marching there from Sabarmati over twenty four days.
On the map this is the marker on the western coast, near the Gulf of Khambhat in Gujarat.

Step 3: Match each name with the marker on the map.
The marker on the Gujarat coast is Dandi, because only a coastal village of Gujarat fits the salt march. The marker on the Tamil Nadu coast is Madras, because that is where the 1927 session met.
Write each name on the line drawn beside the correct marker.

Step 4: Note why each place mattered.
Madras in 1927 prepared the ground for the Purna Swaraj demand that followed at Lahore in 1929. Dandi in 1930 turned a tax on salt into a symbol of colonial injustice and started the Civil Disobedience Movement.

Final Answer: The place of the 1927 session of the Indian National Congress is Madras, now Chennai, shown by the marker on the Tamil Nadu coast. The place where Gandhiji broke the salt law is Dandi in Gujarat, shown by the marker on the Gujarat coast.