The Salt March to Dandi in Gujarat in March, 1930 and later to Vedaranyam, TN by Rajaji (later Gov. General and CM of Madras) and other leaders in April, 1930 are important events in the history of freedom struggle in India against the corrupt and oppressive British rule. This year it is 93 rd salt march anniversary.
Two years ago in order to remember the historical salt march from Trichy to the coastal town of Vedaranyam in Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu, members of Salt Satyagraha Awareness Movement held a remembrance meeting. It was to recall the 1930 historic salt march to register the mass protest against the Salt tax imposed by the British Crown administration.
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| Salt march 1930 hequint.com |
The British during their long stay in India, taking advantage of the disunity among the Indian rulers and other shortcomings, exploited the natives and the land every possible way to make their motherland prosper. The imposition of tax on the salt used in the preparation of food and diet was the most obnoxious and preposterous one by the Raj.
The India Salt Act of 1882 envisaged regulations enforcing a government monopoly on the collection and manufacture of salt. It meant Salt could be manufactured and handled only at official government salt depots, with a tax of Rs 1-4-0 on each maund (82 pounds). Selling salt, a staple item in Indian diet by natives would invite trouble. So, Indians had to depend on salt produced and sold only by the British companies. This way the British were keen to establish their monopoly over the sale and production of an item being daily used by millions of people across the land. Besides, natives had to bear heavy tax on salt. This way the selfish and greedy British government wanted to keep their coffers ever full up to the brim. The unsavory tax act would squeeze the Indians on both sides, particularly, in the lower income group,
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| memorial Plaque in Trichy vedaranyam salt march wikipedia |
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| Vedaranyam salt march 30 April 1930 twitter.com/AmritMahotsav |
The Salt Satyagraha was initiated by Gandhiji and it was a mass civil disobedience movement undertaken with vigor against the salt tax imposed by the British government in India. He led a large group of patriots from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad on 12th March 1930 till Dandi, a coastal village in Gujarat, to break the salt law by producing salt from seawater.
The salt march took place at a time Indians were free to free india from the British yoke. As India happened to be a milch cow for the british, conservative politicians like Winston Churchill. a racist and a baiter of India and Gandhiji were against letting India off the control of the British administration.
It is a great thing to remember those freedom fighters and patriots whose persistent headwork, personal sacrifices got us freedom. We owe a debt of gratitude to the salt marchers to Vedaranyam and Dandi.
https://www.navrangindia.in/2017/05/vedaranyam-salt-march-87th-anniversary.html
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