ROME – When Mahatma Ghandi launched his famous “Salt March” in March 1930, protesting British policies banning Indians from producing their own salt, thereby compelling them to buy heavily taxed ...

Newly found photos highlight women’s key role in Mahatma Gandhi’s civil disobedience movement against British rule.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., made an unusual historical comparison as he and other Democrats pushed to eliminate or relax the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions. While speaking in favor of the ...

Every April 13 for the past 25 years, D. Sakthi Selvaganapathi, a horologist from Tiruvarur, makes his way to the Trichy cantonment. There, he joins fellow Gandhians for a 240 km salt march, ...

Sumit Ganguly receives funding from the U.S. Army War College. As a political scientist who writes on Indian politics and society, I argue that the choice of this word, which means “embracing the ...

You must have heard about Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March. Did you know that salt was such an important part in our struggle for freedom? What is salt? Salt, also commonly known as table salt, is a ...

In 1930, a group of Indians led by a frail, elderly man marched a distance of 241 miles. They marched for salt. Mahatma Gandhi was able to craft an anti-colonial, nationalist movement around the most ...

Sixty-year-old Mahatma Gandhi, provoked by British regulations that prevented Indians from producing or selling their own local salt and that required them to purchase expensive, imported salt they ...