Who Was Gandhi Going To The Ocean In The Salt March

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The british didn’t want to pay the british for their clothes so they started making their own clothes and you can see that in the march salt when Gandhi is going to the ocean in the salt march because people is sitting down making their own clothes and they also did the salt march to make the british soldiers mad so they could think that they didn't have any control of the indian people after that in the movie you can see how indians soldiers get mad and didn’t let any indian to pass through them because they were mad because they thought that the the didn’t have any control of the indian people and then they started hitting them until they got tired.

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