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312 T HEMES IN INDIAN H ISTORY – P ART III Source 8 (contd) FORTHESECONDHALFOFMARCH1930 the salt laws on receipt of Mr. Gandhi’s orders are reported from a number of districts. Bengal FOR THE FIRST HALFOFAPRIL1930 Interest has continued to centre round Gandhi’s march to the sea and the arrangements which he is making to initiate a campaign of civil United Provinces disobedience. The extremist papers report his Events have moved rapidly during the fortnight. doings and speeches at great length and make a Apart from political meetings, processions and great display of the various meetings that are the enrolment of volunteers, the Salt Act has beingheldthroughoutBengalandtheresolutions been openly defied atAgra, Cawnpore, Benaras, passed thereat. But there is little enthusiasm Allahabad, Lucknow, Meerut, Rae Bareli, for the form of civil disobedience favoured by Farukhabad, Etawah, Ballia and Mainpuri. Gandhi … Pt.JawaharlalNehruwasarrestedatCheokirailway Generally people are waiting to see what station early on the morning ofApril 14 as he was happens to Gandhi and the probability is that if proceeding to the Central Provinces to attend a any action is taken against him, a spark will be meeting of Youth League. He was at once taken set to much inflammable material in Bengal. But direct to Naini Central Jail, where he was tried the prospect of any serious conflagration is at andsentencedtosixmonthssimpleimprisonment. present slight. Bihar and Orissa Central Provinces and Berar There have been, or are now materialising, In Nagpur these meetings were well attended spectacular, but small-scale, attempts at illicit and most of the schools and colleges were salt manufacture in a few places … deserted on the 12th March to mark the inauguration of Gandhi’s march. Central Provinces In Jubbalpore Seth Govinddass has attempted The boycott of liquor shops and the infringement of forest laws appear to be the to manufacture chemical salt at a cost many times most probable line of attack. in excess of the market price of clean salt. Punjab Madras Considerable opposition was shown at It seems not improbable that organised attempts Vizagapatam to the Police when they attempted will be made to break the Salt Law in the Jhelum district; that the agitation relating to the to seize salt made by boiling sea water, but non-payment of the water-tax in Multan will elsewhere resistance to the seizure of illicit salt be revived; and that some movement in has been half hearted. connection with the National Flag will be started Bengal probably at Gujranwala. In the mufassal efforts have been made to United Provinces manufacture illicit salt, the main operation Political activity has undoubtedly intensified areas being the districts of 24-Parganas and duringthelastfortnight.TheCongresspartyfeels Midnapore. that it must do something spectacular to sustain Very little salt has actually been manufactured public interest. Enrolment of volunteers, and most of it has been confiscated and the propagandainvillages,preparationsforbreaking utensils in which it was manufactured destroyed. Reprint 2026-27