The March To Dandi Video Lecture - Class 8

the salt mouse by Esther
starting in 1835 when provinces in India
increasingly came under British rule the
British imposed attacks on Indian salt
and a series of sort rolls the tax
raised the price of Indian salt and made
it difficult for Indians especially /
people to buy the salt they needed the
salt laws made it illegal for Indians to
collect produce or sent salt anyone who
produced or sold salt in India outside
of the British could be imprisoned for
six months
Gandhi and many others found the
imposition of the sold
tax and the restrictions on salt
production unfair and decided to protest
against them he said next to air and
water salt is perhaps the greatest
necessity of life
salt is important because it makes our
food taste good but salt is essentially
Gandhi organized a salt march from the
Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad to the
seaside village of Gandhi in the south
of Gujarat it started on the 12th of
March 1930 with Gandhi and 78 people we
know then as freedom fighters because
they struggled not only against unfair
laws but also for Indian freedom from
British rule along the 240 miles from
Ahmedabad to daddy
thousands of people from all over India
joining the march to protest British
rule the high sword taxes and the
unfairness of not being allowed to
produce and sell their own soul
Gandhi and his followers walked about 12
miles a day and reached Gandhi in three
weeks he called it a battle of right
against might at the end of the March
golley picked up some grains of salt
from the seashore and took a pledge with
these crystals of salt I am going to
shake the foundation of the British
Empire with the Dandi March Gandhi
launched the civil disobedience movement
against the British Empire following the
salt march 80,000 images along with
Gandhi were jailed but the British
administration eventually relented and
invited Gandhi to London to discuss
reforms in England
Gandhi's salt march got wide news
coverage and proved to be a turning
point in the history of India's
independence movement and led to
independence in 1947 with this simple
act of standing up against injustice
Gandhi shook the foundation of the
British Empire in India
he showed that by working together
people of conviction and courage even if
each one is as small and powerless as a
grain of salt can make an enormous
difference
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