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Gandhi’s path

Through the last two weeks of March and April 1930, Mahatma Gandhi continued his march on foot, along with 78 Congress volunteers from the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to the Gujarat coast; what the world knows as the Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha, a historic event.

100 Years Ago | 27 April 2023

On this day a century ago, these were some of the news items The Statesman readers got to read about India and the world.

OCCASIONAL NOTE

Bombay, to judge from the statue it has accorded Lord Hardinge, continues to regard that diplomatist in a heroic light. For the average unprejudiced observer Lord Hardinge's viceroyalty marks, and will always mark, the inauguration in India of that policy of opportunism to which the majority of the country's present difficulties are traceable.