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Gandhi and the Salt March

Mass non-violent resistance is developed as a political method and works.

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Duration
25 days
Era
Industrial, Holocene

Gandhi walks 385 kilometres to the sea in 1930 and picks up a handful of salt, breaking the British monopoly. Tens of thousands are arrested. Satyagraha — deliberately accepting punishment while refusing cooperation — is designed to make the moral position of the coloniser untenable and visible. The method is studied and adopted by movements from the American civil rights struggle to anti-apartheid campaigns.

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