Mahatma Gandhi
Spiritual and Political Leader
- His plan is to work the salt flats on the beach, encrusted with crystallized sea salt at every high tide
- The police had forestalled by him crushing the salt deposits into the mud.
- Gandhi reached down and picked up a small lump of natural salt out of the mud-and British law had been defined.
- At Dandi, thousands more followed his led, crowds of citizens in making salt.
- Civil disobedience broke out all across India, soon involving millions of Indians, and British authorities arrested more than 60,000 people.
- Gandhi himself was arrested on May 5, but the satyagraha continued without him.
- His goal was to help poor farmers and laborers protest oppressive taxation and discrimination.
- He struggled to alleviate poverty, liberate women and put an end to caste discrimination, with the ultimate objective being self-rule for India.
- Following his civil disobedience campaign during (1919-22)
- He was put in Jail for conspiracy in (1922-24)
- Gandhi was born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India
- He studied law in London, England
- 1893 he went to South Africa, where he spent 20 years opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians
- As a pioneer of Satyagraha, or resistance through mass non-violent civil disobedience, he became one of the major political and spiritual leaders of his time.
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Salt March (Satyagraha)
Fight for Indian Liberation
Work Cited
- On his release from prison (1931) he attended the London Round Table Conference on Indian constitutional reform.
- In 1946, he negotiated with the Cabinet Mission which recommended the new constitutional structure.
- After independence (1947), he tried to stop the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Bengal
- Starting in 1934 over a period of 14 years as many as six occasions attempts were made to kill Gandhi
- A policy which led to his assassination in Delhi by Naturam Godse, a Hindu fanatic.
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- 1914- Gandhi returned to India, where he supported the Home Rule movement
- He became the leader of the Indian National Congress, advocating a policy of non-violent no-co-operation to achieve independence.
- On March 12, 1930, he set out from his ashram, or religious retreat, at Sabermanti near Abmedabad with several dozen followers on a trek of some 240 mile march to the coastal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea.
- Gandhi and his supporters were to defy British policy by making salt from seawater.
- On the way he addresses large crowds, and with each passing day an increasing number of people joined the salt satyagraha.
- They reached Dandi on April 5, Gandhi was at the head of a crowd of tens of thousands.
- He spoke and led prayers and early the next morning walked down to the sea to make salt.