In Search of Gandhi's Daughters

This fascinating book sees photographer and aid worker Christophe Lambert follow the traces of Mahatma Gandhi's famous 'salt march'.

In 1930 in order to help free India from British control, Mahatma Gandhi proposed a non-violent march protesting the British Salt Tax, continuing Gandhi's pleas for civil disobedience.

The Salt Tax essentially made it illegal to sell or produce salt, allowing a complete British monopoly.

Since salt is necessary in everyone's daily diet, everyone in India was affected.

The Salt Tax made it illegal for workers to freely collect their own salt from the coasts of India, making them buy salt they couldn't really afford.

Women weren't allowed to march because Gandhi felt women wouldn't provoke law enforcers like their male counterparts, making the officers react violently to non-violence.

With this book, Lambert wants to focus on the (non-existing) female rights in India and the catastrophic consequences of having to pay dowry.