SALT MARCH IN INDIA
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- next to air and water, salt is perhaps the greatest necessity of life
- a battle of right against might!
- With this, I am shaking the foundation of the British empire.
- Gandhi and many others found the imposition of the salt tax and the restrictions on salt production unfair so he decided to protest against them
- Gandhi organised a salt march which started on the 12th of March 1930, with Gandhi and 78 people. Along the 250 miles, thousands of people from all over India joined the march to protest British rule. Finally, they reached the destination after 3 weeks.
- At the end og the march, Gandhi picked up some grains of salt fro the seashore and took a pledge,
- WITH THIS SIMPLE ACT OF STANDING UP AGAINST INJUSTICE, GANDHI SHOOK THE FOUNDATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN INDIA. HE SHOWED THAT BY WORKING TOGETHER, PEOPLE OF CONVICTION AND COURAGE,EVEN IF EACH ONE IS AS SMALL AND POWERLESS AS A GRAIN OF SALT,CAN MAKE AN ENORMOUS DIFFERENCE.
- Following the salt march, 80,000 Indians along with Gandhi were jailed.
- but, the British administration eventually relented, and invited Gandhi to London to discuss reforms in India.
- Gandhi's salt march got wide news coverage and proved to be a turning point in the history of India's independent movement that led to independence in 1947.
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