Very Rare Mahatma Gandhi signed "Salt March" Photo. Boldly signed in black ink. Mahatma Gandhi (October 8, 1869–January 30, 1948) Mahatma Gandhi was a spiritual and political leader for India during their struggle for Independence from Britain. History remembers Mohandas Gandhi’s Salt March as one of the great episodes of resistance in the past century and as a campaign that struck a decisive blow against British imperialism. In the early morning of March 12, 1930, Gandhi and a trained cadre of seventy-eight followers from his ashram began a march of more than 200 miles to the sea. Three and a half weeks later, on April 5, surrounded by a crowd of thousands, Gandhi waded into the ocean, approached an area on the mud flats where evaporating water left a thick layer of sediment, and scooped up a handful of salt. Gandhi’s act defied a law of the British Raj mandating that Indians buy salt from the government and prohibiting them from collecting their own. His disobedience set off a mass campaign of non-compliance that swept the country, leading to as many as 100,000 arrests. In a famous quote published in the Manchester Guardian, revered poet Rabindranath Tagore described the campaign’s transformative impact: “Those who live in England, far away from the East, have now got to realize that Europe has completely lost her former prestige in Asia.” For the absentee rulers in London, it was “a great moral defeat.” Gandhi rejected all forms of violence and violent protest, his resistance to violence still greatly influences the world today. This item has been professionally custom matted and framed and comes with a Letter of Authentication from Autograph Certification Experts.

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