Question

Why was salt chosen as the symbol of civil disobedience movement by gandhi? explain by giving three reasons.

Answer 1

Salt was chosen as the central formula in civil disobedience moment because it was a commodity that every Indian could relate, be it poor,middle class,rich,dalits or brahman all used salt alike. Gandhi ji wanted to make the people aware about the oppressive policies which in this case was the ban on manufacturing of salt . He had a symbol in salt which had the potential to unite each and every community in India which had been a major shortcoming of the earlier Non-Cooperation Movement.

Answer 2

Britishers had copyright over the production and trading of salt. The Namak Satyagrah was conducted in the demonstration upon the sheer tax the company levied on salt. This turned out to be an act of peaceful civil disobedience in imperial India to manufacture salt from sea-water,  which was practiced by the Indian people from earlier times. The British administrator's considered such composition criminal and commanded the people to purchase salt at very higher rates.

However, salt was not the chief obstacle Indians were meeting below the British rule, it was determined to signify the start of civil disobedience campaign because salt was considered as something on which every Indian had the fundamental right. Also, salt could be obtained cost-free from the ocean alternatively of spending massive taxes by purchasing from Crown.