Bihar in Non-Cooperation, Civil Disobedience and Quit India
BPSC Prelims demand
Prepare each movement as a separate date–leader–place–method set. Bihar questions often test Bihar Vidyapeeth and Rajendra Prasad in Non-Cooperation; salt action and Rajendra Prasad's arrest in Civil Disobedience; and the seven martyrs at Patna Secretariat plus Jayaprakash Narayan in Quit India.
Three-movement timeline
Compare the Bihar angle
Movement
National marker
Bihar high-yield facts
Non-Cooperation
1920–22; boycott and non-cooperation
Bhagalpur Bihar Provincial Conference, Rajendra Prasad; Bihar Vidyapeeth; National College.
Civil Disobedience
1930; Salt Satyagraha
Saran action began 6 April; Saran and Champaran early districts; Rajendra Prasad arrested 5 July 1930; Deep Narayan Singh worked after the arrest.
Quit India
1942; August Kranti; “Do or Die”
Seven martyrs at Patna Secretariat; Shaheed Smarak; JP's underground role after Hazaribagh escape.
People and places
Name/place
Correct link
Rajendra Prasad
Led Bihar's Salt Satyagraha; chaired the 1920 Bhagalpur provincial conference.
Bihar Vidyapeeth
Established during the Non-Cooperation Movement; foundation of National College and Bihar Vidyapeeth was laid by Gandhi.
Saran
Salt Satyagraha began there on 6 April 1930; several salt-making centres developed.
Champaran
Along with Saran, among the first Bihar districts to start the Salt Satyagraha.
Deep Narayan Singh
Took up leadership work after Rajendra Prasad's 1930 arrest.
Patna Secretariat
Site associated with the seven student martyrs of August 1942.
Jayaprakash Narayan
Key underground leader in 1942; Bihar-born at Sitab Diyara, Saran.