拍品专文
An unusual and interesting album of photographs documenting the struggle for independence in India and including portraits of Mahatma Gandhi, Abdul Gaffar Khan, Motilal Nehru, Kamla Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, Sardar Vallabhai Patel and Subhas Chandra Bose.
Photographs show the burning of foreign cloth as a part of the swadeshi (of our own country) movement, which promoted Indian-made goods over foreign imports; leaders of the independence movement addressing crowds; demonstrations, marches and protests; crowds being dispersed by mounted police; arrests; and a large procession organised by the Bombay Provincial Congress Committee to protest against the arrest of Gandhi. Several studies cover the progress of the historic Salt March, led by Mahatma Gandhi, who left Bombay on 12 March 1930 with his supporters and proceeded to the coast. There he made salt from sea water at Worli, breaking the salt laws imposed by British rule and making a strong symbolic statement for independence.
Photographs show the burning of foreign cloth as a part of the swadeshi (of our own country) movement, which promoted Indian-made goods over foreign imports; leaders of the independence movement addressing crowds; demonstrations, marches and protests; crowds being dispersed by mounted police; arrests; and a large procession organised by the Bombay Provincial Congress Committee to protest against the arrest of Gandhi. Several studies cover the progress of the historic Salt March, led by Mahatma Gandhi, who left Bombay on 12 March 1930 with his supporters and proceeded to the coast. There he made salt from sea water at Worli, breaking the salt laws imposed by British rule and making a strong symbolic statement for independence.