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The Salt Satyagraha of Bengal: How Geopolitics Shaped a Rebellion
While the Dandi March is remembered as India’s iconic salt protest, Bengal’s own salt satyagraha of 1930 was a massive, decentralized uprising that drew on centuries of resentment over British salt taxes. This episode dives into the geography and politics of Bengal’s salt-making regions—the coastal tracts of the Sundarbans, the salt lagoons of Hijli and Contai—and the colonial policies that crushed local industry. We meet the forgotten leaders like Satish Chandra Samanta and the women who broke the salt laws, and explore how the British attempted to control the salt trade through licensing…
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