Does anyone know who's who in the Gandhi salt march monument?

zoossh

I went recently to take photographs of the monument and got interested in taking the individual characters of the monuments. It looks pretty interesting including the last person in the monument who is old and looks almost too wear out to walk anyone. Some walk arm in arm, some walk on their own, all some distance from Gandhi.

However, the information board said nothing about who is who, and i tried searching online but saw no further information on the specifics of the monument. I wonder if anyone here has any links with regards to that?

madman16m

is this the image you are talking about?

madman16m

Try googling images for Gandhi Salt March.

You can post image which you are talking about.

shashank.aggarwal

search for "Gyarah Murti"...

I was there couple of weeks back with a friend, and noticed that all others besides Gandhi ji were not famous names. The artist has just shown people from different from various communities and religions. This was to show that India was unified for this cause.

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zoossh

ic. i was trying to figure out if some of them are important people like nehru, gandhi's wife or important leaders representing the sikh and muslims. i will post my pictures later to see if any of them are known personnels rather than fictionous.

zoossh

#1 counted 11 figures including gandhi


#2 first woman behind gandhi, and i'm not sure if there is some resemblance to Sarojini Naidu who is known to be among the march

zoossh

#3 cluster of three persons, with a sikh behind



#4 close-up of the man arm-in-arm ; is there a name for that kind of hat the man on the left wears? i think nehru also wears that.



#5 the sikh

zoossh

#6 another man in turban but without beard



#7 a man bare chested and looking far ahead



#8 a priest?

zoossh

#9 2nd woman in the queue



#10 the boy trying to help an old man who is sitting down



#11 last person in the statue. an old man sitting down, probably too tired to carry on.

singsub

these figures are meant to represent the various sections of indian society, although why they should all be following gandhi i will never know.

shashank.aggarwal

I guess that is what they did when he undertook the salt march...and this is what Artist is trying to show..

edwardseco

A lot of people did..

zoossh

my friends have the initial impression that it is a muslim head dress but obviously it is not true.... cos nehru wears that...

zoossh

understood. but really curious as to whether there is any one from the church who joins the salt march (with a guy dressed like a reverend)....

from what i read, the salt march is one of the major event that brought the west to empathise with the wish of the indians, but i'm not sure if the local christian community is involved earlier than that or during the salt march.