Sabarmati Ashram, on the banks of the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad, was Mahatma Gandhi's home for over a decade and the starting point of the historic 1930 Salt March, one of the most significant acts of civil disobedie…
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Introduction
Sabarmati Ashram, on the banks of the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad, was Mahatma Gandhi's home for over a decade and the starting point of the historic 1930 Salt March, one of the most significant acts of civil disobedience in India's independence movement. The simple, unadorned cottages where Gandhi lived and worked have been preserved much as they were, giving visitors a direct, intimate sense of his daily life and philosophy.
A museum on the grounds traces Gandhi's life and the broader independence struggle through photographs, letters and personal artefacts, and the ashram's quiet riverside setting, away from Ahmedabad's busier streets, retains something of the contemplative atmosphere Gandhi himself sought to cultivate here.
History
Gandhi established the ashram in 1917 as a base for his social and political work, and it was from here in 1930 that he set out on the 240-mile Salt March to the Arabian Sea coast in protest against British salt taxation, a pivotal moment in India's independence movement.
