A Handful of Salt Shakes an Empire
In 1930, to protest Britain’s monopoly and tax on salt, Gandhi led a march on foot of more than three hundred kilometers to the sea and took salt with his own hands from the seawater — a seemingly trivial act, yet an open contempt of colonial authority. Millions of Indians followed suit, making salt illegally and boycotting British goods. This "Salt March" shed no blood, yet showed the world: when the ruled collectively refuse to cooperate, even the mightiest rule will shake.