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21
May
1930

Dharasana volunteers face police violence without retaliating

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📅 21 May 1930 📍 India

Volunteers advanced on the Dharasana salt works during the civil disobedience campaign. Police beat protesters who did not strike back; reporting carried the confrontation internationally. Women’s leadership, including Sarojini Naidu’s role, was central to a strategy exposing the coercion behind colonial law.

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Sarojini Naidu

Manilal Gandhi

Imam Bawazir