Question

How did 'Salt Satyagraha' of Gandhiji become the All-India campaign in opposition to the British? Explain with examples.

Answer 1

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.

1. Rural residents also had the chance to sign up for the event. A sizable portion of the participants were women.
2. Well-known women such as Kasturba Gandhi, Kamladevi Chattopadhyay, Avantikabai Gokhale, Lilavati Munshi, and Hansaben Mehta led the satyagraha campaign.
3. 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.
4. Peasants hated the colonial forest fences that barred them and their cattle from the once-freely roaming woods across large portions of India.
5. Factory workers went on strike in some towns, lawyers avoided British courts, and students resisted attending government-run schools.