How did the Salt March represent Gandhis methods for change?
n 1930, Mahatma Gandhi and his band of 78 marchers undertook one of the most inspiring events in the history of the Indian freedom movement. To help free Indian from British control, Gandhi proposed a nonviolent march protesting the British Salt Tax. The Salt Tax made it illegal to sell or produce salt, allowing a complete British monopoly. Since salt is necessary is everyone’s diet, all people in India were affected. The Salt Tax made it illegal for workers to freely collect their own salt from the coasts of India, making them buy salt they couldn’t afford. On April 5, 1930 Gandhi and his faithful “sartyagrahis” (name given by Gandhi to nonviolent resisters) reached the coast of the Indian Ocean. Prayers were offered and Gandhi picked up a tiny lump of salt, breaking the law. The Salt March started a series of protests. Within a month, Gandhi was arrested and thrown in a prison already full of fellow protestors. The world embraced the sartyagrahis and their civil disobedience, eventua
