THE SALT MARCH

"The Statesman, a prominent newspaper, wrote about the choice:

"It is difficult not to laugh, and we imagine that will be the mood of most thinking Indians."

Louis Mountbatten

“I fucked it up”

His experience in the region and in particular his alleged Labor sympathies of the time led Prime Minister Clement Attlee to appoint him viceroy of India after the war. In his position as viceroy, Mountbatten monitored the granting of independence to Indian territories, such as India and Pakistan.








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THE SALT MARCH

"The Statesman, a prominent newspaper, wrote about the choice: 

"It is difficult not to laugh, and we imagine that will be the mood of most thinking Indians."

American journalist Webb Miller:

Not one of the marchers even raised an arm to fend off the blows. They went down like ten-pins. From where I stood I heard the sickening whacks of the clubs on unprotected skulls... In two or three minutes the ground was quilted with bodies. Great patches of blood widened on their white clothes. The survivors without breaking ranks silently and doggedly marched on until struck down...stretcher bearers rushed up unmolested by the police and carried off the injured to a thatched hut which had been arranged as a temporary hospital...The blankets used as stretchers were sodden with blood. At times the spectacle of unresisting men being methodically bashed into a bloody pulp sickened me so much I had to turn away....I felt an indefinable sense of helpless rage and loathing, almost as much against the men who were submitting unresistingly to being beaten as against the police wielding the clubs... Group after group walked forward, sat down, and submitted to being beaten into insensibility without raising an arm to fend off the blows. Finally the police became enraged by the non-resistance....They commenced savagely kicking the seated men in the abdomen and testicles. The injured men writhed and squealed in agony, which seemed to inflame the fury of the police....The police then began dragging the sitting men by the arms or feet, sometimes for a hundred yards, and throwing them into ditches.