Write three effects of symbolic Salt march on British.
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Gandhi with his few volunteers marched from Ahmedabad to Dandi and picked up a handful of salt by broking Salt law.
The manufacture of salt shows initiation of the civil disobedience movement.
The match has enormous response from the people who participated actively.
The salt march was effective symbol of resistance, because
1. Tax loss : Salt was essential commodity for all people from poor to rich. Making them against law and boycotting to pay salt tax has created huge revenue loss to the British govt.
2. Easy access : Being a daily usable commodity by all, everyone participated effectively by making salt marches and producing salt.
3. Awareness : The saltmarch has explicitly showcased how the British are draining of wealth even in the basic salt from poor to rich. Hence making people to fought.
against them.
4. Gandhi's Strategy : The salt march was started with few volunteers. But in the 24 days march, enormous people joined which was not predicted by British initially.
5. The accumulated anti British sentiments and evolved nationalism was correctly organised in a uniform pattern everywhere.
The salt hence created a bitter in the British governance.