INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan is the person who led Civil Disobedience Movement in North-West frontier province. He was the most loyal follower of Gandhi and was called Frontier Gandhi. He began a satyagraha at Peshawar on 23 April 1930.

Detailed explanation-2: -At the age of 20 in 1910, Khan opened a madrasa in his hometown of Utmanzai. In 1911, he joined the independence movement of the Pashtun activist Haji Sahib of Turangzai.

Detailed explanation-3: -The march covered over 240 miles, from Gandhiji’s ashram in a place called Sabarmati to the Gujarati coastal town of Dandi. On 6 April he reached Dandi, and ceremonially violated the law, and started manufacturing salt by boiling seawater. This movement marked the beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement.

Detailed explanation-4: -The country began to defy the salt rules after Gandhi’s ceremony in Dandi cleared the way. In Madras, Calcutta, and Karachi, there were sizable demonstrations in response to Nehru’s imprisonment in April 1930 for breaking the salt rule. More items