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Gandhi's Salt Strategy (Mahatma Gandhi's acts ("khadi…
Gandhi's Salt Strategy
Mahatma Gandhi's acts
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"khadi campaign"
encouraged Indians to spin cotton into yarn, weave,
boycott British manufactured textiles
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boosted self-respect, trained citizens, provided people with constructive work
Khadi Campaign
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1914
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discarded Western clothing, donned the homespun cloth
Gandhi's Salt March
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60000 marchers were jailed and brutally beaten, but most marched were not given up
1947, India was recognized as an independent nation
Salt Campaign
1930, Gandhi lead a 240-mile march to the sea to collect salt
though Gandhi's idea met with skepticism, turned out to be ingenious
strict laws, Indian buy expensive, heavily taxed British salt
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=> traditional Indian clothing became a commodity, a visual uniform of nationalism
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