Sabarmati Ashram
Also called: Satyagraha Ashram, Harijan Ashram · Topic: The National Movement: Gandhian Era · NCERT: Class 12, Ch 3 "Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement"
Meaning
Sabarmati Ashram, also called the Satyagraha Ashram, was Gandhi's home and work centre on the Sabarmati river near Ahmedabad in Gujarat. An ashram is a simple community where people live and work together by shared rules. Gandhi was based here from 1917 to 1930. Its members spun cloth, lived simply and trained as satyagrahis, people who resist without violence. It later came to be called the Harijan Ashram.
Example
On 12 March 1930, Gandhi left Sabarmati Ashram with 78 volunteers. They walked about 240 miles in roughly 24 days to Dandi on the Gujarat coast. There, on 6 April 1930, he made salt from boiled sea water and broke the salt law.
Don't confuse with
- Dandi: the coastal village where the march ended and the salt law was broken. Sabarmati was where the march began.
Related concepts
- Eleven demands of Gandhi 1930
- Salt monopoly
- Salt satyagraha
- Civil disobedience movement
- Vedaranyam salt march
- Dharasana satyagraha 1930
- Sarojini Naidu
- Abdul Ghaffar Khan
- Khudai Khidmatgar
- Garhwali soldiers at Peshawar 1930