Civil Disobedience by definition is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws of the state, and/or demands, orders, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. This is an expression that has been used throughout history, such as Martin Luther King Jr’s civil disobedience acts for civil rights. And numerous other instances in history where the practice of civil disobedience has been used. The author Thoreau was the first person to use the practice. And like those who have been named, there has been a famous instance in history such as Gandhi on his quest to get rid of the british rule on his 240 mile march across India.
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There, Gandhi and his supporters were to go against the British policy by making salt from the seawater in a body of water.
What eventually happened to Gandhi during the march across the land was that he was arrested for his disobedience on March 5th. And on May 21 to keep the march continued , a poet by the name of Sarojini Naidu led 2,500 marchers on the Dharasana Salt Works, some 150 miles north of Bombay. Here they were met by hundreds of British- issued soldiers who viciously beat the protesters and arrested them. And because of this action from the british rule, the entire continent of india started an outroar with the disbelief of what happened.
The march did not end in vein because it brought so many viewers across the world, which brought more people to practice civil disobedience like those before them. The march ended with Gandhi being released from prison and him meeting with Lord Irwin, for the agreeance of calling off the satyagraha for the exchange for an equal negotiating role at a London conference on India’s future. The meeting ended up being a disappointment, but the British leaders recognized that Gandhi was a force that they could not ignore anymore. India’s was eventually given their independence in August of 1947, six months before the assassination of Gandhi which occured on January 30, 1948(Williams/History.com