Political/ Economic/Social Issues in India in 1919
Political
Economic
Social
nature, impact and significance of campaigns of resistance 1919–1922
Impact
Nature
Significance
significance of the Salt Satyagraha
Nature
British police crushed salt into mud in hopes to stop Gandhi
Indian nationlists followed and led crowds to do the same
Civil disobedience broke out all over India: 60, 000 Indians arrested by
British authorities
Gandhi was arrested on May 5th and Satyagraha continued
Impact
In January 1931, Gandhi was released from prison:
met with Lord Irwin and negotiated the stopping of
Salt Satyagraha in exchange for equal negotiating at
London conference on India's future
British acknowledged Gandhi as a force they could not suppress or ignore
India's independence was finally granted in August 1947
British Salt Act prohibited Indians from
collecting or selling salt, a staple in the Indian
diet
On March 12, 1930, Gandhi set out from his Ashram at
Sabermanti near Ahmedabad with several dozen followers on
a trek to some 240 miles to the coastal town of Dandi on the
Arabian Sea. There, Gandhi and his supporters were to defy
British policy by making salt from seawater.