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.
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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.
When two places have to be identified on one map, the safest route is to fix the position of each on the map of India first and then read the clues against those positions.
One marker lies on the western coast and the other on the eastern coast, so the two cannot be mixed up once their locations are settled.
Step 1: Read the western marker.
The dot on the left of the map sits on the coast of Gujarat, close to the Gulf of Khambhat. Ask which event of the freedom struggle happened at a coastal village in Gujarat.
The answer is the breaking of the salt law, because salt could only be made where sea water meets the shore.
Step 2: Name the western place.
Gandhiji reached Dandi on 6 April 1930 after walking about 240 miles from Sabarmati with his followers, and there he made salt by boiling sea water, breaking the colonial law.
Step 3: Read the eastern marker.
The dot on the right sits on the Coromandel coast in Tamil Nadu. The clue left over is the Congress session of 1927, and the annual session of that year met at Madras, today called Chennai.
Step 4: Cross-check the pairing.
A salt march to the sea could not have ended in Tamil Nadu, since Gandhiji started from Sabarmati in Gujarat. A Congress session cannot be placed at a small coastal village either. So the pairing is fixed and consistent.
Final Answer: The Gujarat coast marker is Dandi, where the salt law was broken, and the Tamil Nadu coast marker is Madras, now Chennai, where the Indian National Congress session of 1927 was held.
