American Toby Jug Museum 

Ghandhi character jug prototype modeled by Stanley J. Taylor and produced by Royal Doulton of Burslem, England, circa 1995. Mohandas Karamchand Ghandhi (1869—1948) was modern India’s greatest political and spiritual leader. Admitted to the English bar in 1889, he went to South Africa in 1893 where he became a successful lawyer and activist. In South Africa his personal philosophy underwent significant changes. He abandoned Western ways around 1905 and thereafter lived abstemiously, symbolized in his eschewal of material possessions and his dress of loincloth and shawl. In 1914 he successfully secured an agreement from the South African government that promised the alleviation of anti-Indian discrimination. In 1915 he returned to India with great stature. Through the 1920s and 1930s he led several non-violence campaigns in search of reforms and independence from British rule. In 1930, in protest against the government’s salt tax, he led the famous 200-mile march to extract salt from the sea, for which he was briefly imprisoned. In 1942 he launched the “Quit India” movement, for which he was interned until 1944. Ghandhi was a major figure in the postwar conferences that led to India’s independence and the separate Muslim state of Pakistan. On January 30, 1948, he was fatally shot by a Hindu fanatic who was angered by Ghandhi’s solicitude for the Muslims. After his death his methods of nonviolent civil disobedience were adopted by protagonists of civil rights in the United States and by many protest movements throughout the world. A salt crab and walking stick form the handle of the jug.