Video narration
Imagine Gandhi walking toward the sea, knowing the British could arrest him for picking up salt. Britain controlled salt and taxed this basic necessity, used by rich and poor alike. In a school, it would be like students openly refusing an unfair rule together, and accepting detention. That was the logic of civil disobedience: nonviolently breaking an unjust law and facing the punishment. On the Salt March from Sabarmati to Dandi, people joined Gandhi. Then the walk became a nationwide refusal to obey colonial laws-making salt, boycotting British goods, protesting, and refusing some taxes. The British answered with mass arrests, including Gandhi's. The Civil Disobedience Movement was suspended during negotiations, then resumed; independence did not come immediately. But the campaign widened participation and made British rule harder to ignore. One handful of salt transformed a tax protest into a national challenge-and brought freedom closer.