Why did Mahatma Gandhi send eleven demands in his letter to Lord Irwin?###What were the main demands of the 11 demands of Mahatma Gandhi to Viceroy Irwin?
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On 31st January 1930, Gandhiji sent a letter to Viceroy Irwin in which he mentioned two types of demands:
- One was of general interest and the others were specific demands of different classes from industrialists to peasants.
- The idea was to make the demands wide-ranging, so that all classes within Indian society could identify with them and everyone could be brought together in a united campaign.
- The most stirring of all was the demand to abolish the Salt Tax.
- Salt was something consumed by the rich and the poor alike, and it was one of the most essential items of food.
- The tax on salt and the government monopoly over its production, as Gandhiji declared, revealed the most oppressive face of the British rule.
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