Civil Disobedience movement
On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a recalcitrant march to the ocean in kick of the British monopoly on swab, his boldest act of civil defiance yet against British rule in India.
Britain’s Salt Acts
banned Indians from collecting or dealing swab, a chief in the Indian diet.
Citizens were forced to buy the vital mineral from the British, who, in
addition to exercising a monopoly over the manufacture and trade of swab, also
wielded a heavy swab duty. Although India’s poor suffered most under the duty,
Indians needed swab. Civil Disobedience movement Defying the Salt Acts, Gandhi reasoned, would be an
ingeniously simple way for numerous Indians to break a British law
nonviolently. He declared resistance to British swab programs to be the
unifying theme for his new crusade of satyagraha, or mass civil defiance.
On March 12, Gandhi set out from Sabarmati with 78 followers on a 241- afar march to the littoral city of Dandi on the Arabian Sea. There, Gandhi and his sympathizers were to defy British policy by making swab from seawater. All along the way, Gandhi addressed large crowds, and with each passing day an adding number of people joined the swab satyagraha. Civil Disobedience movement By the time they reached Dandi on April 5, Gandhi was at the head of a crowd of knockouts of thousands. Gandhi spoke and led prayers and beforehand the coming morning walked down to the ocean to make swab.
He'd planned to work the swab apartments on the sand, crusted with formed ocean swab at every high drift, but the police had precluded him by crushing the swab deposits into the slush. Nonetheless, Gandhi reached down and picked up a small lump of natural swab out of the slush – and British law had been defied. At Dandi, thousands more followed his lead, and in the littoral metropolises of Bombay and Karachi, Indian chauvinists led crowds of citizens in making swab. Civil Disobedience movement Civil defiance broke out each across India, soon involving millions of Indians, and British authorities arrested further than people. Gandhi himself was arrested on May 5, but the satyagraha continued without him.