A memorial carved in Stone
On March 12, 1930, mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and 80 comrades, embarked on a march from the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to the village of Dandi on the coast of Gujarat. The march would take 24 days, cover a distance of 241 miles and Gandhi would be joined by tens of thousands of people. A museum has been set up at the very spot where the march ended almost 90 years ago, in an extravagant re-creation of this watershed moment in the long-drawn struggle for Independence. The National Salt Satyagraha Memorial captures, in lavish detail, the storied history of the movement through statues, cast in silicon bronze, of the 80 marchers who set off with Gandhi; 24 narrative murals in deep relief, symbolising the number of days the march lasted; and photographs and mixed-media works, depicting the many associated stories of the event.
The memorial honours the act of civil disobedience against the arbitrary tax levied by the British government on the production and sale of salt within India.
