Correct answer: (c) Web Miller
Explanation
- A
Francis Louis
Francis Louis is not the foreign journalist keyed to the Dharasana salt-works satyagraha reports. This option is not the key.
- B
Mark Tully
Mark Tully is a later BBC correspondent associated with independent India’s political reporting, not with 1930 Dharasana. This option is therefore wrong.
- C
Web Miller
Web Miller (Webb Miller) is the official key. He was a United Press correspondent whose despatches on the 1930 Dharasana salt satyagraha described the police beating of non-violent volunteers after Gandhi’s arrest. Those reports carried the raid to a world audience. Among the four names, Miller is the journalist of that episode, so (c) is correct.
- D
Philip Sprat
Philip Spratt was a British communist activist linked to the Meerut Conspiracy Case, not the Dharasana reporter. This option is not the key.
Summary. Official key is (c) Web Miller. Webb Miller’s United Press reporting made the Dharasana salt raid internationally known in 1930. Mark Tully belongs to a later century of journalism. Spratt is a Meerut-case name, not a salt-satyagraha correspondent. Only (c) is correct.