Gandhi's 11 points ultimatum was given to the viceroy before starting Civil Disobedience Movement. Which of the following are correct with respect to This ultimatum? (1) Reduce Rupee-Dollar exchange rates (2) Reduce land revenue by 50% (3) Reduce political prisoners

Gandhi's 11 points ultimatum was given to the viceroy before starting Civil Disobedience Movement. Which of the following are correct with respect to This ultimatum? (1) Reduce Rupee-Dollar exchange rates (2) Reduce land revenue by 50% (3) Reduce political prisoners Correct Answer 1 & 2

The correct answer is 1 & 2.

Key Points

• 11 demands were put forward by Mahatma Gandhi and gave an ultimatum on 31st January 1930.
• The following are the eleven demands of Gandhiji which he made to Lord Irwin:
  • Prohibit liquor, intoxicants
  • Issue licenses of firearms to citizens for self-protection
  • Change the exchange ratio between the rupee and the sterling
  • Release all political prisoners
  • Reduce the rate of land revenue
  • Abolish the CID department
  • Reduce the military expenditure
  • Accept the Postal Reservation Bill
  • Abolition of the salt tax
  • Impose custom duty on foreign cloth
  • Reduce expenditure on civil administration

​Additional Information

• The Civil Disobedience Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi.
• The observance of Independence Day in 1930 was followed by the launching of the Civil Disobedience Movement under the leadership of Gandhi.
• It began with the famous Dandi March of Gandhi. On 12 March 1930, Gandhi left the Sabarmati Ashram at Ahmadabad on foot with 78 other members of the Ashram for Dandi, a village on the western sea-coast of India, at a distance of about 385 km from Ahmadabad.
• They reached Dandi on 6 April 1930. There, Gandhi broke the salt law.
• It was illegal for anyone to make salt as it was a government monopoly.
• Gandhi defied the government by picking up a handful of salt which had been formed by the evaporation of the sea.
• The defiance of the salt law was followed by the spread of the Civil Disobedience Movement all over the country.
• Making of salt spread throughout the country in the first phase of the civil disobedience movement, it became a symbol of the people’s defiance of the government.