"May [the Declaration] be to the world, what I believe it will be ... the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government." Thomas Jefferson's last letter written to Roger C. Weightman, June 24, 1826 In the chronicles of India's long march to independence people naturally tend to think of Mahatma Gandhi whose provocative use of non-violence brought the British Empire to its knees. But there were many groups advocating for Indian independence for a long time, many of them were inspired by the ideals of the American Declaration of Independence, as Gandhi himself was, until on January 26, 1930 Indians declared their independence to the world, led by a movement to end taxation on salt culminating on the march to Dandi . Our guest post today is an article by Mr.B. S. Prakash the Consul General of India in San Francisco an...