:31:00
-Where are we going?
-Back to the ashram.
:31:03
Then to prove to the new viceroy...
:31:05
...that the king's writ
no longer runs in India.
:31:08
Salt?
:31:09
Yes, sir. He's going to march
to the sea and make salt.
:31:15
There's a royal monopoly
on the manufacture of salt.
:31:18
It's illegal to make it or sell it
without a government license.
:31:23
All right, he's breaking the law.
:31:26
What will that deprive us of?
Two rupees of salt tax?
:31:29
It's not a serious attack
on the revenue.
:31:31
Its primary importance is symbolic.
:31:34
Don't patronize me, Charles.
:31:39
In this climate, nothing lives
without water or salt.
:31:43
Our absolute control of it is
a control on the pulse of India.
:31:48
And that's the basis of
this declaration of independence?
:31:52
The day he sets off...
:31:53
...everyone is supposed to
raise the flag of "Free India."
:31:58
And then he walks some 240 miles
to the sea and makes salt.
:32:06
I say ignore it.
:32:08
Let them raise their damned flags.
:32:11
Let him make his salt.
:32:13
It's only symbolic
if we choose to make it so.
:32:19
He'll arrive at the sea...
:32:21
...on the anniversary
of the Massacre of Amritsar.
:32:32
General Edgar is right.
Ignore it.
:32:35
Mr. Gandhi will find
it takes a great deal more...
:32:38
...than a pinch of salt
to bring down the British Empire.