In 1930 Gandhi organised the Salt March. The British had controlled the manufacture and sale of salt for many years, a staple of the Indian diet. Britain imposed a heavy tax on salt, which ...

Eighty-five years ago, on March 12, Mohandas Gandhi set out with 80 followers from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to Dandi village in coastal Gujarat to produce salt as a show of protest against ...

Indian salt worker Walbai Ayyubbhai, 70, carries a rake at a salt pan on the eve of International Women's Day in the Santalpur region of Little Rann of Kutch, India on March 7, 2013. (Sam Panthaky/AFP ...