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The Salt March

      In India, in 1930, a small gentle man led thousands of people on a "salt" march.  The man was Gandhi.  His followers called him Mahatma.  Mahatma means "Great soul".  The mahatma led his followers 200 miles to the sea.  There they made salt by boiling water from the ocean.
        There had been a salt tax in India for hundreds of  years.  It was not a fair tax, for the tax was the same for rich and poor.  It was one of the most hated taxes in India.
         India had been ruled by many different people.  In 1930, India was still owned and ruled by England.  Gandhi wanted his country to be free.  But he did not believe in using force.  He wanted a peaceful change.  His salt march told England and the world that Indians wanted to rule their land themselves.
         Mahatma Gandhi worked in many ways to free India.  In 1947, after almost a hundred years of English rule, India did become a new and free nation. 

Notes

1. Gandhi    甘地          2. mahatma   n.         圣雄，大圣

Scenes during Gandhi's famous march, on foot to the sea coast at Dandi, on the eve of the Salt Satyagraha, 1930. 

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