Harshi
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- Please make our salt more affordable, so our culture is able to eat and thrive. It is a necessity to us.
- Not while its under British rule.
- Dear Lord Irwin,The salt laws are an inexcusable evil. I promise you I will launch a satyagraha campaign. My ambition, is no less than to convert the British people through nonviolence and thus make them see the wrong they have done to India.
- My request will not be ignored. I will start my 240 mile journey. My plan is to defy the salt tax by illegally harvesting the mineral from the beachside. I can only worry about the consequences I might recieve.
- Gandhi and many others found the imposition of the salt tax and the restrictions on salt production unfair to India since it is a necessity to their culture.
- On March 2, he penned a letter to British Viceroy Lord Irwin and made a series of requests, among them the repeal of the salt tax.
- With this I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire.
- Since Gandhi's requests were ignored he had promised to set out and start a satyagraha campaign. On March 12, 1930, Gandhi set out on the Salt March. The 240-mile march gained popularity quickly, and people from all over India joined to protest British rule.
- Deal!
- Give us what is rightfully ours!
- Along the way, Gandhi stopped at multiple villages toaddress the masses and condemn both the Raj and the salt tax.He also encouraged government workers to embrace his philosophy of noncooperation by quitting their jobs.
- What is government service worth, after all? Come and join us by defying the British Laws. Help us defeat the Raj.
- Gandhi and his party finally arrived at Dandi on April 5, having walked 241 miles in the span of just 24 days. Gandhi then walked the beach to find a rich salt source. His efforts hadserved as a signal for other Indians to join in what had become known as the “Salt Satyagraha.”
- Gandhi was taken into custody on May 5, after he announced his intention to lead a peaceful raid on a government saltworks at Dharasana. But even with their leader behind bars, his followers pressed on. After Gandhi's release,British Viceroy Lord Irwin finally agreed to negotiate with him, and in March 1931, the two created the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, which ended the satyagraha in exchange for several concessions including the release of thousands of political prisoners. It gave Indians living on the coasts the right to produce the mineral from the sea.
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