What you didn't know about Gandhi's Salt March #history #gandhi #facts

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And then came Gandhi. In 1930, India was still under British rule. And the British controlled the production and sale of salt in India. Indians couldn't produce their own — not from the sea, not from the ground. You had to buy it. Taxed. From the colonial government.In a country of 300 million people working in tropical heat, salt was not a luxury. It was daily biological necessity turned into colonial control. On March 12, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi set out from his ashram with 78 followers to walk 240 miles to the coast. When he got there, he was going to do what the law specifically forbade: pick up salt.The British thought it was comical. A 60-year-old man walking to the beach. What kind of revolution was that? They were wrong. By the time Gandhi reached Dandi on April 5th, the march had grown from 78 to tens of thousands. Every step of the 24-day journey had been photographed and reported around the world. When he bent down on April 6th and lifted a small lump of natural salt from

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