Salt March

The salt marsh or salt Satyagraha of 1930 was a campaign Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who should break the salt monopoly of the British and ultimately led to India's independence from Great Britain. The Salt March was the most spectacular campaign that Gandhi initiated during his struggle for independence. This action should inspire civil disobedience and be a sign against the dependence of high taxes by the United Kingdom.

Here, Gandhi moved with 78 of his followers, the so-called Satyagraha, from 12 March 1930 by his Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad about 385 kilometers to Dandi on the Arabian Sea. He arrived 24 days later and raised as a symbol of action a few grains of salt on in order to protest against the British salt monopoly. Salt has always been an important economic factor of India and is indispensable for the population, on the one hand to prepare the staple food rice, on the other hand in the hot air to compensate for the daily electrolyte loss. Gandhi urged his compatriots to do the same without resorting to violence, what happened in the whole of India: not only his followers began to win their salt itself by featured salt water in a bowl in the sun and let evaporate, but also other Indians participated. In addition to that, they used the salt obtained not only for private purposes, but also continued to sell it tax-free.

Because any form of salt production, transport of salt and salt trade was the British Subject, Indians were arrested in the wake of the 50,000, including almost all the leaders of the Congress Party of India, which accelerated the success of the action extraordinary.