Gandhi And The Influence Of Britain's Salt Act

Britain’s Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, which was an important element of the Indian diet. Citizens were forced to buy salt from the British who took advantage of this opportunity to place a heavy tax on salt. This affected majority of Indians who were poor and couldn’t afford the heavily taxed salt.
On March 12, 1930, Gandhi with several dozen followers, began a 240-mile journey to the costal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea (Salt N.P.). Gandhi and his supporters would go against the British law by making salt from seawater. Each day, the number of people that joined the salt Satyagraha increased as they passed through each village. By the time they reached Dandi on April 5, Gandhi was the head of a crowd
of tens of thousands of people (Salt N.P). Police anticipated the event and crushed the crystallized sea salt deposits that resulted from the high tide in mud.
Gandhi broke British law when he picked up a small lump on natural salt out of the mud. Thousands more followed his lead, Indian nationalists in Bombay and Karachi led crowds of citizens in making salt. This caused civil disobedience circulate across all of India. Millions of Indians soon used this method to get