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The first laws to regulate the salt tax were made by the British East India Company. In 1835, the government appointed a salt commission to review the existing salt tax.
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and activist in the struggle for social justice and for India's independence from British rule.
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Gandhi leaves for England to study law.
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Gandhi fails as a lawyer in India.
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Gandhi passes the exam in England.
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Gandhi accepts commission to spend a year in South Africa advising on a lawsuit.
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Gandhi wants to stay at South Africa, and founds the Natal Indian Congress.
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Outbreak of Boer War (1899-1901) in South Africa. Gandhi organizes an ambulance corps for the British.
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The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was the first Satyagraha movement led by Gandhi in India and is considered a historically important revolt in the Indian Independence Movement. It was a farmer's uprising that took place in Champaran district of Bihar, India, during the British colonial period.
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Salt Satyagraha March started on 12th March 1930 from Sabarmati Ashram and reached Dandi after 24 days on 6th April 1930.
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Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist who objected to Gandhi's tolerance for the Muslims, fatally shot him.