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Stamps Of Dandi March Released In 2005 to Mark 75th Anniversary Of Dandi March
Taxation of salt has been in existence in India since the earliest times. The tax was significantly increased when the East India Company began to establish its rule over provinces in India. In 1835, special taxes were imposed on Indian salt to facilitate its import. The British East India Company hugely benefitted from this. When the British Crown took over the administration of India from the Company in 1858, the taxes were not rolled back.
The stringent salt taxes imposed by the British were fervidly condemned by the Indian public. In 1885, during the 1st session of the Indian National Congress in Bombay, a prominent Congress Leader S.A.Swaminatha Iyer raised the issue of the salt tax. Protests followed throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries culminating in Mahatma Gandhi's Salt Satyagraha in 1930. Salt Sathyagraha was followed by other sathyagrahas in other parts of the country.
Mahtama Gandhi defied the salt laws at 6:30 am on April 6, 1930, This sparked large scale acts of civil disobedience against the British Raj salt laws by millions of Indians
C. Rajagopalachari broke the Salt Laws at Vedaranyam in the same year. Many Indian Patriots courted arrest and were imprisoned in huge numbers. The British administration eventually relented and invited Mahatma Gandhi to England to attend the Second Round Table Conference. Gandhi's Dandi March got wide news coverage and proved to be a turning point in the history of India's independence movement.
First Day Cover On The Stamp On Salt Satyagraha Released On 5th April 2005 to mark the occassion
Pictorial Cancellation For The Stamp On Dandi March Released In 2005 To Mark 75years Of Salt Satyagraha
75 years of Salt Satyagraha “Dandi March” Stamps Featuring Mahatma Gandhi
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