UPSC Prelims 2025 · GS Paper I
Question 71: History and Culture
“Sedition has become my religion” was the famous statement given by Gandhiji at the time of
AnswerThe answer is (b).
The remark is linked to the Salt Satyagraha of 1930. In the run-up to the Dandi March and the breaking of the salt law at Dandi on 6 April 1930, Gandhi spoke of defying an unjust law openly and willingly, saying that sedition had become his religion. That act opened the Civil Disobedience Movement. At Champaran in 1917 the issue was the indigo planters, the Second Round Table Conference of 1931 was a negotiation, and the Quit India call of 1942 is remembered for 'Do or Die'.
Why each option is right or wrong
- (a) Wrong: Champaran in 1917 was a struggle over indigo cultivation, not the origin of this remark.
- (b) Right: the statement belongs to the Salt Satyagraha, when the salt law was broken at Dandi.
- (c) Wrong: the Second Round Table Conference was a negotiation in London, not an act of defiance.
- (d) Wrong: the Quit India Movement is remembered for the 'Do or Die' slogan.
Explanation: written by UPSC Grade, not by UPSC.
Source: UPSC, Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2025, General Studies Paper I, Series A. The paper on upsc.gov.in.