Scarce 8 x 12.5 double-sided typed newsletter from December 31, 1930, entitled "The Bombay Congress Bulletin," signed at the head in fountain pen, "Yours sincerely, M. K. Gandhi." Published by Sjt. Mohanlal Thakkar for the Satyagraha Committee, Bombay, the bulletin served as a voice for the Indian independence movement and reaffirmed India's resolve. The piece reads, in part: "British Exploitation in India reveals to the world the ugliest aspect of the modern civilization. Three hundred millions of people of this ancient land of unparalleled glory are reduced to the position of serfs in their own country...this exasperation expressed itself in the Independence Resolution passed last year at Lahore. The Nation made a grim determination to shape its own future as it liked and refused any longer to accept in any form and shape the despicable yoke of Britain....Non-violence has, it must be admitted, thoroughly vindicated itself as a most effective method of putting the enemies always in the wrong. In the last Nine months during which it has been practiced, it has succeeded in destroying completely in the eyes of the world, the prestige of Britain." Double-matted with a color copy of the opposite side, and a portrait of Gandhi dressed in his dhoti, to an overall size of 30.5 x 19.25. In fine condition.
Gandhi had adopted his famous methodology of 'Satyagraha,' or nonviolent protest, while living in South Africa in the early 1900s. The concept would become critical to his later fight for Indian independence, and in the spring of 1930 he led the Dandi Salt March as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly. The success of the Salt March demonstrated the effectiveness of non-violence, and gave impetus to the movement for independence as a whole.
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