Gandhi spins while addressing a crowd (1930)
Gandhi spins khadi by hand on a raised platform while addressing a crowd during the 1930 Civil Disobedience movement, performing the boycott's own discipline in public so the charkha stood for the whole campaign rather than one man's habit.
- Date
- 1930
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Indian National Congress (Civil Disobedience movement)
- Region
- South Asia
- Country
- British India
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- British Raj
- Leader
- Edward Wood
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Empire and colonialism, Economy and finance
- Event
- Civil Disobedience Movement 1930
- Techniques
- Plain folksTransfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (PD-India; 1930 publication, PD in India before 1996 so not restored in the US)
Unknown news-bureau photographer, 1930; scan via Frances Pritchett, Columbia University
Text on the object
No printed or legible text on this object.
Checked closely: no banners, signs, placards or lettering are visible on the platform, the crowd, the flag/pennant held at the platform's edge, or the photograph's white mounting border. A plain documentary photograph with nothing printed on it.
