Why was Salt March notable? Mention two reasons.
(i) It was the first nationalist activity in which women participated in large numbers. The socialist activist Kamaladevi Chottopadhyay had persuaded Gandhiji not to restrict the protests to men alone. Kamaladevi was herself one of numerous women who courted arrest by breaking the salt or liquor laws.
(ii) Perhaps most significant it was the Salt March which forced upon the British the realisation that their Raj would not last forever and that they would have to devolve some power to the Indians.