At the time of Mohandas Gandhi's salt satyagraha, he was accused of a major strategic blunder. But the action was actually hugely successful—and offers lessons for movements today.

When Mohandas Gandhi began his famous Salt March 85 years ago today, on Mar. 12, 1930, he couldn’t have known the influence it would wield on the history of India and the world. Not only did it ...

The famous 1930 "salt march" by India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi to defy British colonial rule is being re-enacted for its 75th anniversary. The march of several hundred is led by Gandhi's ...

Mahatma Gandhi and Sarojini Naidu during the March. The New York Times report on the Salt March, April 6, 1930. Gandhi's transgression served as a signal for other Indians to join in what had ...

History remembers Mohandas Gandhi’s Salt March as one of the great episodes of resistance in the past century and as a campaign which struck a decisive blow against British imperialism. In the early ...

Gandhi's Salt March Emma Borley Peace was his weapon against oppression and a peaceful protest against the salt laws brought The British Empire to its knees.

“The Salt March, which took place from March to April 1930 in India, was an act of civil disobedience led by Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) to protest British rule in India.

Gandhi’s ‘salt march’ re-enacted. ... Indians who were joined by some foreigners, began the 388-kilometre walk from Ahmedabad city, in Gujarat state, on March 12. ...

There, in a small-town cinema, I saw a clip of Gandhi's Salt March. To protest the British-imposed tax on salt that was hurting the poor, Gandhi marched to the sea and made salt.

AHMEDABAD: Hundreds of people arrived on Wednesday to cheering crowds in the western Indian beachhead village of Dandi at the end of a 26-day re-enactment of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous “salt ...