Government of IndiaAHMEDABAD: ON THE PATH TO INDEPENDENCE
The path to Indian Independence is paved with the efforts and endeavours of people from all across the country.
Explore the timeline below to find out the role that Ahmedabad played in the freedom struggle.
A START AT SABARMATI ASHRAM
1915
This Charkha at the Sabarmati Ashram is symbolic of Gandhiji’s ideologies and his aim of inculcating the sense of swaraj and swadeshi among the people of India. With Gandhiji’s arrival at Ahmedabad, Sabarmati Ashram became the focal point of India’s freedom struggle.
This room in Hriday Kunj - Gandhiji’s house in the Ashram, is where he spent most of his time, often meeting other eminent personalities, discussing the path to India’s freedom.
This is where it all began!
YOUNG INDIA
1919
Young India was a weekly journal in circulation from 1919-1931. Its columns discussed non-violence, truth and justice - ideas that would become the driving forces of the Indian Independence movement.
Its main contributor - Gandhi wrote the columns from his home at Sabarmati Ashram.
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Read ‘Young India’ on the portal.
THE IRON MAN OF INDIA
1924
One of the prominent leaders of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, was closely associated with the city of Ahmedabad. A lawyer by profession, he settled in Ahmedabad in 1913 and 11 years later he became the President of the Ahmedabad municipality. His decision to stay back with the people of Ahmedabad when the city was hit by a plague and subsequently by a famine, made him a people’s leader. Further, his major role in the Kheda Satyagraha where he fought for the farmers, gained him mass popularity.
It was from Ahmedabad that his journey as a national leader began!
Explore the political journey of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel through rare images, texts and records
DANDI: SALT SATYAGRAHA
1930
In 1930, numerous people came together on the Ellis Bridge at Ahmedabad where Gandhiji proclaimed the intention to march to Dandi to challenge the unfair Salt Laws of the British. This came to be known as the Dandi March. With his followers, he marched to Dandi to break the British law which placed a ban on manufacturing salt. The march was a defining moment that brought the freedom struggle on the forefront of the national consciousness.
Ahmedabad was the nurturing ground for many movements in the Freedom struggle.
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