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Sedition has become my religion' was the famous statement given by Gandhiji at the time of

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Mahatma Gandhi equated sedition with religious duty during the Dandi Salt Satyagraha in 1930. The declaration justified breaking unjust colonial tax laws through non-violent civil disobedience.

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According to the 'Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi' and his March 1930 publications in the Young India journal, this fierce ideological statement was tied to the launch of the Civil Disobedience Movement.
  • The Context: While preparing to break the colonial salt tax through the Dandi March, Gandhi recognized that the British state would brand the mass defiance as seditious treason.
  • The Declaration: He explicitly wrote and spoke that when a ruling government becomes deeply exploitative, destructive, and unjust, loyalty to it is a sin. Consequently, non-violent defiance (legally termed 'sedition') transcends mere political strategy and becomes a sacred, moral duty—his 'religion'.
  • Historical Distinction: Though he was tried for sedition earlier in 1922 after Chauri Chaura, the specific rallying cry of sedition being his religion was used to morally arm the masses prior to publicly violating the Salt Law at Dandi in 1930.

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    Gandhi was famously tried for sedition earlier in 1922 (after Non-Cooperation), which makes the Champaran or earlier timelines tempting distractors. However, the exact phrasing of it 'becoming his religion' was weaponized publicly in his 1930 writings.

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    During which historical event did Gandhi state: 'Sedition has become my religion'?

    The public violation of the Salt Law at Dandi (Civil Disobedience Movement, 1930).

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    Quoted
    'Sedition has become my religion'
    Quote Context
    During
    Salt Satyagraha
    Salt Satyagraha
    Occurred In
    1930

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