Sabarmati Ashram

Sabarmati Ashram (also known as Gandhi Ashram, Harijan Ashram, or Satyagraha Ashram) is located in Northern Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The ashram served as the residence of Mahatma Gandhi after his release from the six years in prison starting in 1922. This place was the point where Mahatma Gandhi started the Dandi March on March, 30, 1930. Gandhi at that time vowed never to return to the ashram until India became independent. This ashram originally was established in the Kochrab area of Ahmedabad in 1915, and in 1917 it was shifted to the Western banks of Sabarmati River. When Gandhi was deciding on the location for this ashram he once said, "This is the right place for our activities to carry on the search for Truth and develop Fearlessness, for on one side are the iron bolts of the foreigners, and on the other the thunderbolts of Mother Nature," (Gandhi made a reference to the fact that one side of the ashram faces Ahmedabad's jail (now Central Jail), which held the prisoners of the British government were kept, and the other side faces the Sabarmati river). From this ashram Mahatma Gandhi also launched the newspaper Young India, and inaugurated a series of reforms aimed at the rural poor and the untouchables.

Wikipedia Article View in Google Maps View in Google Earth