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How did 'Salt Satyagraha' of Gandhiji become the All-India campaign in opposition to the British? Explain with examples.
Solution
Mahatma Gandhi launched the Salt Satyagraha, a significant civil disobedience movement to oppose the British government's imposition of a salt tax in India. Gandhi organised a sizable group of individuals on March 12, 1930, and drove them from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi, a coastal Gujarati village, where they produced salt from seawater against the law.
Mahatma Gandhi also organised 78 volunteers and started the well-known salt march. More than 380 kilometres separated Gandhi's ashram in Sabarmati from the Gujarati coastal town of Dandi during the rally. He arrived at Dandi on April 6 and ceremonially broke the law by starting to boil seawater for salt. The Civil Disobedience Movement began with this market.
- Rural residents also had the chance to sign up for the event. A sizable portion of the participants were women.
- Well-known women such as Kasturba Gandhi, Kamladevi Chattopadhyay, Avantikabai Gokhale, Lilavati Munshi, and Hansaben Mehta led the satyagraha campaign.
- Nonviolence served as the movement's guiding principle. Despite ongoing British repression, it did not give up. The Indians were regarded as fearless due to their lack of fear.
- Peasants hated the colonial forest fences that barred them and their cattle from the once-freely roaming woods across large portions of India.
- Factory workers went on strike in some towns, lawyers avoided British courts, and students resisted attending government-run schools.
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On 5 April 1930, Mahatma Gandhi spoke at Dandi: When I left Sabarmati with my companions for this seaside hamlet of Dandi, I was not certain in my mind that we would be allowed to reach this place. Even while I was at Sabarmati there was a rumour that I might be arrested. I had thought that the Government might perhaps let my party come as far as Dandi, but not me certainly. If someone says that this betrays imperfect faith on my part, I shall not deny the charge. That I have reached here is in no small measure due to the power of peace and non-violence: that power is universally felt. The Government may, if it wishes, congratulate itself on acting as it has done, for it could have arrested every one of us. In saying that it did not have the courage to arrest this army of peace, we praise it. It felt ashamed to arrest such an army. He is a civilized man who feels ashamed to do anything which his neighbours would disapprove of. The Government deserves to be congratulated on not arresting us, even if it desisted only from fear of world opinion. Tomorrow we shall break the salt tax law. Whether the Government will tolerate that is a different question. It may not tolerate it, but it deserves congratulation for the patience and forbearance it has displayed in regard to this party. What if I and all the eminent leaders in Gujarat and in the rest of the country are arrested? This movement is based on the faith that when a whole nation is roused and on the march no leader is necessary.
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On 5 April 1930, Mahatma Gandhi spoke at Dandi: When I left Sabarmati with my companions for this seaside hamlet of Dandi, I was not certain in my mind that we would be allowed to reach this place. Even while I was at Sabarmati there was a rumour that I might be arrested. I had thought that the Government might perhaps let my party come as far as Dandi, but not me certainly. If someone says that this betrays imperfect faith on my part, I shall not deny the charge. That I have reached here is in no small measure due to the power of peace and non-violence: that power is universally felt. The Government may, if it wishes, congratulate itself on acting as it has done, for it could have arrested every one of us. In saying that it did not have the courage to arrest this army of peace, we praise it. It felt ashamed to arrest such an army. He is a civilized man who feels ashamed to do anything which his neighbours would disapprove of. The Government deserves to be congratulated on not arresting us, even if it desisted only from fear of world opinion. Tomorrow we shall break the salt tax law. Whether the Government will tolerate that is a different question. It may not tolerate it, but it deserves congratulation for the patience and forbearance it has displayed in regard to this party. What if I and all the eminent leaders in Gujarat and in the rest of the country are arrested? This movement is based on the faith that when a whole nation is roused and on the march no leader is necessary.
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