SALT REVOLUTION

Salt Revolution

Salt Revolution

The historical event

The road to independence for India, Mahatma Gandhi drew it, born in Gujarat and educated in Britain, began his career as a shy lawyer with a modest clientele. His legal career, however, was short-lived, because soon began their fight for the cause of Indians in South Africa. Gandhi had accepted an invitation in 1893 to represent the Indian workers in South Africa, where he lived nearly twenty years. Gandhi's struggle in South Africa spread beyond improvements to Indian workers. Its main mission was to eliminate racial discrimination against Indians and abusive treatment they received workers by employers. After several months of violent protests and the arrest of thousands of Indian workers, the ruler of South Africa, General Jan Smutts freed the prisoners and abolished laws that allowed the abuse of workers. The shy young lawyer became a true revolutionary. His success in South Africa opened the hope for a similar action in India.

In 1915, he returned to India by then even Gandhi did not advocate complete independence from India. In fact, his back said that being a citizen of the British Empire, which called for freedom and protection, would be wrong of you not coming to the defense of the Empire in the First World War. Gandhi's mentor was the veteran Congress Party politician Gopal Krishna Gokhale, with whom he traveled widely throughout the country for several years, knowing in this way the different provinces, cities and towns of India and its culture, its people, their way of life and its problems (Ackerman, 2000).

The ideas and strategies of Gandhi on civil disobedience were not welcome at first among politicians, considering them impractical. Gandhi was of the belief that civil disobedience was the most effective weapon to fend off immoral and unjust laws, but to do was to resort to nonviolent protest and withdraw all cooperation with a corrupt state. This strategy called "satyagraha" inspired millions of Indians when it was used after the slaughter of Amritsar. In Champaran, Bihar, Gandhi championed the cause of Indian farmers, landless and forced to grow crops that were not needed for subsistence, receiving a paltry compensation for their work. By this time, Gandhi had already abandoned their Western clothing, using the Indian fashion shawls.

The simplicity of Gandhi electrified millions of poor Indians and common. It was one of them and tried to differentiate the classes elistescas. When he was arrested by the police, led a massive protest in Bihar and the British government was forced to release it and accede to the demands of farmers for whom the lawyer. Their achievements were free to choose product growing farmers, the reduction in taxes and adequate payment for the crops (Chatterjee, 2001).

Champaran was this victory that gave him the title of Mahatma or "Great Soul." It was a title given by the newspapers or observers, but by millions of Indians who cheered for wherever. In 1920, under the leadership of Gandhi, the Congress was reorganized and issued a new constitution, whose ultimate ...