By: Arman Barrett & Cortney

sherwood

MAHATMA GANDHISATYAGRAHA & THE SALT MARCH

December 28, 1931: ·Gandhi returns to India.

Autumn 1931: ·Gandhi participates in the Round Table Conference in Britain.

January 1931: ·British government yields to protests, releases all prisoners, invites a Congress representative to Britain for a Round Table Conference

May 5, 1931: ·Gandhi is arrested for violating the Salt Laws; non-cooperation movements break out across India.

March 12-April 6, 1931: ·Gandhi leads his Salt March to the sea.

March 2, 1931: ·Gandhi warns the Viceroy of his intention to break the Salt Laws.

January 26, 1930: ·Gandhi publishes the Declaration of Independence of India.

BEFORE, DURING, AFTER

Gandhi believed there where to forms of violence passive and

physical. Gandhi teaches that the one who possess nonviolence is

blessed. Gandhi says, "Blessed is the man who can perceive the law

of ahimsa (nonviolence) in the midst of the raging fire of himsa

all around him.” Mahatma Gandhi organized peaceful protest such as marches many of which he

lead himself putting himself in lots danger. He was beaten and even imprisoned many times but he

never resorted to violence against his oppressors. When he was

older and unable to lead physically as he had in his youth,

he spoke out and wrote in defense of those in need of help.

PERCEIVED INJUSTICE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW3uk95VGes

ACTIONS TAKEN IN PROTEST

The British suppressed the march fiercely, arresting tens of thousands, and refused to make any concessions. It was also limited by its failure to win Muslim support.

It announced to the world that the Indian masses were a serious force, and that the British authorities had been forced to negotiate with their leader.

It help others think and stimulated further waves of civil disobedience.

A Success was that the Salt March had a tremendous influence on the thinking and strategy of others, such as Martin Luther King.

SUCCESS & FAILURE

Following his civil disobedience campaign from 1919 to 1922, he was jailed for conspiracy from 1922-1924. In 1930, he led a landmark march to the sea to collect salt in defiance of the government. When he was released from prison in 1931, he attended the London Round Table Conference on Indian constitutional reform. In 1946, he negotiated with the Cabinet Mission which recommended the new constitutional structure.

THE REASON FOR MAHATMA GANDHI DURING THE SALT MARCH BEING AN EXAMPLE OF CIVIL

DISOBEDENCE

Gandhi• Gandhi believed in

rather more civil resistance rather than civil disobedience because the approach that Thoreau took Gandhi had not yet read upon.

• Gandhi came up with satyagraha meaning truth force or soul force for peace against all who did wrong against people who did wrong.

Same• They both

believed in having a better government that worked better for everyone.

• They believe in approaching every situation non-violently and staying calm and collected thru trying times.

Thoreau• Thoreau prefers a

laissez-faire government, but he does not call for abolishing government. Rather he wants a better government.

• One honest man can change the state by standing up to it.

THE COMPARISON OF THOREAU'S & MAHATMAS GANDHI CONCEPT OF CIVIL

DISOBEDIENCE

The salt march really wasn’t a civil disobedience it was a civil resistance that changed the views on everything. It showed the British government that the Indian force shouldn’t be reckoned with. They united as one and showed that what they believed in was real and that everything what the British was doing was wrong to the Indians. Gandhi did not believe in a eye for an eye as others did and so that’s why tragedies happen because the British thought they could just do anything since he didn’t believe in fighting back in a physical way.

VIEW POINT

http://successsearch.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/who-is-mahatma-gandhi-success-and-failure-of-mahatma-gandhi/comment-page-1/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagrahahttp://

www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gandhis-first-act-of-civil-disobedience

WORK CITED