Question

why did mahatma Gandhi find salt as powerful symbol

Answer 1

Mahatma Gandhi found salt as a powerful symbol that could unite the nation. The idea was to make the demands wide-ranging, so that all classes within Indian society could identify with them and everyone could be brought together in a united campaign. The most stirring of all was the demand to abolish the salt tax. Salt was something consumed by the rich and the poor alike, and it was one of the most essential items of food. The tax on salt and the government monopoly over its production, Mahatma Gandhi declared, revealed the most oppressive face of British rule.

Answer 2

Salt Tax

the British made it illegal for the Indians to collect the natural deposits of salt.due to India's weather, the citizens sweat and lose more of the human body's salt supply. Indians didn't eat much meat (natural source of salt) so they needed to find a supplementary source of salt. Thus, the British imposed the salt tax to control the Indians.

Salt March

nonviolent campaign by Mohandas ( Mahatma ) Gandhi to protest against salt tax*one of the most important protests Gandhi has madeGandhi and his 78 followers marched from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi on the Arabian Sea.the journey was 240 miles or 386.2 kilometers

it led to the Gandhi-Irwin pact where gathering and manufacturing salt is legal

the government lifted the tax a year later after the Salt March