Dear Friend, Before embarking on Civil Disobedience and taking the risk I have dreaded to take all these years. I
would ... approach you and find a way out. I cannot intentionally hurt anything that lives, much less
human beings, even though they may do the greatest wrong to me and mine. Whilst therefore I hold the
British rule to be a curse, I do not intend harm to a single Englishman or to any legitimate interest he
may have in India... And why do I regard the British rule a curse!. Even the salt (the peasant must
use to live is so taxed as to make the burden fall heaviest on him... The tax shows itself still more burden
some on the poor man when it is remembered that salt is one thing he must eat more than the rich man...
My ambition is no less than to convert the British people through nonviolence, and thus make them see
the wrong they have done to India ... But if you cannot see your way to deal with these evils and if my
letter makes no appeal to your heart, on the eleventh day of this month I shall proceed with such
coworkers of the Ashram (Community) as I can take, to disregard the provisions of the Salt Laws
Source: Gandhi's letter to Lord Irwin, English govemor in India, before marching to the sea and breaking the
English Salt Tax Law. Sabarmati, India (March 1930)
(Explain the historical circumstances that led to the Gandhi writing to the English governor
in India.) idk what to write