Salt: A World History
How did the Indians react to the British banning the trade of their salt?
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Throughout the late 19th and early 20th century, opposition to the British salt policies started to grow into a popular movement that was eventually lead by Mohandas Gandhi. After reading Thoreau in a jail cell in Africa, Gandhi developed his form of non-violent resistance and used his methods to protest the British policies in India. In 1930, Gandhi led a group into Dandi to illegally scrape up sea salt. Gandhi's refusal to obey the oppressive British salt laws sparked a nation wide revolt against the salt tax.