Self Rule and the Salt March, 1930
•Protest to the British tax on salt
•Gandhi walked from Sabarmati, Ashram to Dandi, Gujarat to get salt (240 miles)
•Many thousands followed him
•March lasts March 12 to April 6, 1930.
•Outcome draws support for the independence movement across India and the World
•Gandhi arrested and put in prison
•Gandhi walked from Sabarmati, Ashram to Dandi, Gujarat to get salt (240 miles)
•Many thousands followed him
•March lasts March 12 to April 6, 1930.
•Outcome draws support for the independence movement across India and the World
•Gandhi arrested and put in prison
question
what would have happend if Gandhi didn't make the salt march?
summery
Was an important part of the Indian independence movement. It was a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India, and triggered the widerCivil Disobedience Movement.