Top 10 freedom-struggle places in UPSC Prelims
Champaran and Dandi are the two freedom-movement places Prelims names most often. Our count of all 20 sites on the map.
Our map marks 20 places linked with the national movement. Between them they appear in 35 Prelims questions in our bank. Two places account for 15 of those.
Source: UPSCPrep Data Atlas
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India map in the official boundary; positions are for orientation · Source: UPSCPrep Data Atlas
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Champaran in Bihar leads with 8 questions – it was Gandhi's first satyagraha in India, against the indigo planters. Dandi, the end point of the Salt March on 6 April 1930, follows with 7. Bardoli and Jallianwala Bagh have 4 each, and Kheda and Surat 3 each.
UPSC angle
- Most questions test sequence or association: which movement, which year, which leader.
- Build a timeline from the years in the place names – 1907, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930 – and pin each one on the map.
- The three Gandhian struggles of 1917–18 (Champaran, Kheda and Ahmedabad) are a common grouping.