Did You Know?
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The Salt March
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In early April, 1930 Gandhi, 61 years old, reached Dandi after walking 241 miles
in 24 days. He then defied the law by making salt.
It was a brilliant, non-violent strategy by Gandhi. To enforce the law of the land,
the British had to arrest the satyagrahis (soldiers of civil disobedience) and Indians
courted arrest in millions.
There was panic in the administration and Indian freedom struggle finally gathered
momentum both inside and outside of India.
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Month In History
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January 1924- Gopinath Saha tried to assassinate
Charles Tegart, the hated Police Commissioner of Calcutta. By an error, another
Englishman named Day was killed
January 29- Subhas Bose was elected by 1580 votes
against 1377. Gandhi declared that 'Pattabhi's defeat is my defeat'
January, 1942- Nehru came to the forefront to
argue that Congress should once again offer the British co-operation in the war
effort and make preparations to resist the Japanese
January 30- Mahatma Gandhi was attending prayers,
he was shot and killed by Nathuram Godse, a 35-year old editor of a Hindu Mahasabha
extremist weekly in Poona.
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