Gandhi and the Salt March
Mass non-violent resistance is developed as a political method and works.
- When
- —
- 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.