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Gandhi Begins the Salt March
What Happened
On March 12, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi set out from Sabarmati Ashram with 78 followers on a 240-mile march to the sea to make salt in defiance of British colonial law.
Why It Still Matters
Gandhi chose salt - a basic necessity taxed by an imperial power - as his symbolic battleground. The lesson: the most powerful acts of resistance target policies that affect ordinary people's daily lives.
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