(i) On 31st Jan., 1930 Mahatma Gandhi sent a letter to Viceroy Irwin stating eleven demands.
(ii) Some of these were of general interest; others were specific demands of different classes from industrialists to peasants.
(iii) The idea was to make the demands wide-ranging, so that all classes within Indian society could identify with them and everyone could be brought together in a united campaign.
(iv) The most stirring of all was the demand to abolish the salt tax.
(v) Salt was something consumed by the rich and poor alike and it was one of the most essential items of food.
(vi) The tax on salt and the government monopoly over its production was the matter of concern.
(vii) Mahatma Gandhi declared and revealed the most oppressive face of the British rule.
