Salt March

    

       In the spring of 1930,Gandhi at the age of 61 led the Dandi march from his base  near Ahmedabad to the sea coast near the village of Dandi, where they walked for 390km in 24 days. Also known best as the Salt Satyagraha, a campaign against the British salt tax in colonial India using a non-violent approach, which triggered the wider Civil Disobedience Movement.There, he declared that he would take a pinch of salt from the Indian Ocean, which violated the laws of the Empire that stated only the British can harvest salt.Following with that plan, Gandhi lead thousands on a, "March to the Sea" to symbolically make their own salt from seawater. The British government had a monopoly on salt, controlling both its productuon and distribution, it was then where Gandhi turned to the force of Satyagraha. From a practical point of view, the salt march was was a meaningless gesture, though it had astonishing power in the act in political theatre.

Word Trivia: Satygraha- a synthesis of the Sanskrit words, Satya or truth and Agraha or holding firmly to. But for Gandhi, satygraha went far beyond the general "passive resistance" and became strength in practicing nonviolent methods.