Historiography and the Dandi March

The following message is about India’s freedom struggle. A struggle in which the whole country united against the British in 1857, in which during 1930 people began manufacturing salt in every house, a struggle which ended in freedom.

At 6.30 a.m. on 12 March 1930, Mahatma Gandhi led a column of seventy-eight of his followers, large crowds in tow, from Sabarmati Ashram towards the seashore of Dandi some 200 miles distant, on the commencement of the epic Salt March.

No Women? Yes
Though women were full and active members of Gandhi's community, and many were to be closely associated with him over a lengthy period of time, no women were present among the 78 people chosen to accompany him on the march.

Opportunistically distorted beliefs
‘Just as Hindus do not harm a cow, the British do not attack women as far as possible. For Hindus it would be cowardice to take a cow to the battlefield. In the same way it would be cowardice for us to have accompany us’.
-Gandhi’s remarks at prayer meeting, Sabarmati Ashram, Navajivan, 9 March 1930.

An interesting article:
in.rediff.com/news/2006/apr/05spec.htm