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Indian Independence Movement
In August 1947 British rule ended on the Indian subcontinent.
In the Indian Independence Movement, Mahatma Gandhi marched approximately 240 miles (385 km) from his Sabarmati ashram to the coastal town of Dandi to protest the British salt monopoly.1