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Thousands of villagers gathered along the route to see the Mahatma and support the movement. Walking ten to twelve miles a day, Gandhi gave rousing speeches and recruited volunteers. He urged village headmen to resign their posts and cease cooperating with the British government. He promoted other elements of his agenda: spin khaadi and boycott for
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Gandhi is not an anti-modern as much as an internal critique. The kind of modernity that arose in Europe which he saw spreading in India, he said there were alternative of modernity, which did not take the same route as Europe. There might be a different modernity.
The Web of Freedom: J. C. Kumarappa and Gandhi’s Struggle for Economic Justice
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He settled on salt. "History has no instance of a tax as cruel as the salt tax," Gandhi declared; through it, "the State can reach even the starving millions, the sick, the maimed and the utterly helpless." The issue was not only taxation, though the tax was heavy, working out by his account to 2,400 percent over the sale price.
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On October 2, 2000, the 131st anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth, Gandhi's family gave this Canadian farmer the prestigious Mahatma Gandhi award. An enormous crowd of 300,000 Indian farmers gathered to listen to and support Percy Schmeiser.