1. On March 12, 1930, Mohandas Gandhi set out on a walk with a bunch of his followers. Their final destination was Dandi, a coastal town near the Arabian sea. The protest was in response to the Britain's Salt Acts, a law that banned Indians from collecting or selling salt. While the Salt March was a specific event, the protest was part of a larger movement. That movement was Indian protest of British colonialism in general. However, given that the movement is very large, I am only going to focus my project on the Salt March specifically.
2. The identity associated with this protest, is Indians living under British colonialism. I am choosing this identity because they where the ones most affected by the Salt Acts, as the law itself was directed at them as a group. The protest was also significant for them for another very important reason, and that was because, for them, it was a protest about basic human rights, and the right to eat whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted.
3. The specific group I am looking at is Gandhi and his followers, those that participated in the march with him. The group participated by walking to Dandi. The march lasted about 4 weeks. At the end of the march, the intent was to defy the Salt Acts. They planned to do this by making salt from the Saltwater in the sea.
4. In terms of "issues" with the topic, I would say that for me the main issue would be this: Finding reliability in my sources. Since I am dealing with an historic event, and a very specific one, my main concern is that I may find "sources" that turn out to be mistaken, wrong, or flat out untrue. I do worry that with the abundance of articles, videos, or reports, that it may become hard to discern between facts and fiction. The most difficult part of the topic, I think, will be attempting to find out what really happened all those years ago, and to not cite something that later turns out to be untrue.
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