Question

During Salt Satyagraha, in Bihar, in addition to making salt, the people chose to oppose the government by opposing which tax?
1. Haathi
2. Development
3. Chowkidari
4. Malba

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Chowkidari

The correct answer is Chowkidari.

• Since Bihar is a landlocked area, so here Salt Satyagraha was not possible.

• Here the people organized a movement by refusing to pay the chowkidari tax.

• The demand was made for the resignation of chowkidars and members of panchayats who had the responsibility to appoint these chowkidars.

• The anti chowkidari tax campaign was successful in areas of Bhagalpur, Monghyr, and Saran.

• Chowkidari tax:-
  • It was a kind of tax that was collected from farmers in the period of 1907.
  • The Secretary of the state collected the tax from farmers for the compensation of village watchmen (kind of police), so it affected the poor farmers.
  • In 1930 ,the farmers refused to pay this tax during the civil disobedience movement.