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enter Delhi, fearing that this would
generate more disobedience in the 6. Legacy
region.
Another famous protest is the Salt The non-violent protests that
March that Gandhi organized to Gandhi exhibited made it so that
combat the English taxation on salt, the international community
and Gandhi made the point that if became criticizing of the English
salt was to be taxed, then the Indian occupation of the Indians, and
population would make their own led to the independence of India.
salt in order to not pay the English He was assassinated by Hindu
the taxation on salt. This march, nationalists that regarded him as
which was a non-violent protest led complacent to Muslims and that he
388 kilometers along the coast of was responsible for the religious
India. turmoil that the country was facing
