Salt March
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After the Declaration of Independence all India and British waited to see what Gandhi would do next. By February of 1930 his mind has turned into salt. On March 2, 1930, he sent a famous letter to to the Viceroy Lord Irwin, warning him that beginning March 11 his members in ashram will begin to break the Salt Laws. On March 12, having given the Viceroy an extra day, Gandhi and seventy-eight others left his ashram and began to walk the two hundred miles to the seacoast. There he said he would take a pinch of salt from the Indian Ocean and spent twenty-four days walking to the sea. He reached it on April 6, and took salt from the ocean; soon, all over India, the subjects of the Raj followed suit, disobeying the Salt Laws in massive numbers: the Congress organized the sale of illegal salt on a huge scale, and mass meetings took place in every major city. The British government cracked down–throwing people in jail. Soon the prisons were full to bursting with Indians, all of whom followed Gandhi's lead and made no resistance. It was satyagraha on an unprecedented scale, and the Viceroy was helpless against it. In desperation, he ordered the Indian leaders arrested, beginning with Jawaharlal Nehru and ending, on May 5, with Gandhi. But still the demonstrations went on, lasting nearly a year, in January of 1931, the government yielded.