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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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1931

1914

1869

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.
  • "Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi : The Facts Behind." Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi : The Facts Behind. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Sept. 2015.
  • "Salt March." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 02 Sept. 2015.
  • "1919-1946: Gandhi and the National Liberation of India." 1919-1946: Gandhi and the National Liberation of India. N.p., n.d.Web. 02 Sept. 2015.
  • 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.
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