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When Women In The British Raj Started A Movement Against The Salt Tax

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On the fateful night of December 31, 1929, Jawaharlal Nehru’s unfurling of the tricolor on the eastern bank of the Ravi River in Lahore was a symbolic declaration of his Congress party’s demand for ‘purna swaraj’ or complete self-rule. According to the resolution, the key action in ensuring the end of British ‘inhuman rule’ was to ‘withhold the payment of taxes without violence and provocation’.

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