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The Salt of Bengal: A Forgotten Protest at Dandi's Eastern Edge
When Mahatma Gandhi marched to Dandi in 1930, the salt satyagraha rippled across British India. But Bengal had its own theater of defiance, led by a man whose name barely survives in the national memory: Satish Chandra Dasgupta. This episode traces the salt movement's lesser-known eastern front—from the factories of Khulna where tax collectors smashed illegal salt pans, to the long marches through the Sundarbans, to the young woman Bina Das who fired shots in the Assembly and turned a protest into a family tragedy. We uncover how colonial salt laws shaped Bengal's economy for a…
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