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 nationalists 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
British acknowledged Gandi as a forces they could not supress or ignore
India’s independence was finally granted in August 1947.
In January 1931, Gandhi was released from
prison: met with Lord Irwin and negotiated the
stopping of Salt Satygraha in exchange for equal
negotiating at London conference on India’s
future
Britain’s Salt Acts prohibited Indians
from collecting or selling salt, a staple
in the Indian diet.
On March 12, 1930, Gandhi set out from his ashram, or religious
retreat, at Sabermanti near Ahmedabad with several dozen
followers on a trek of 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.