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The Salt March, also known as the Dandi March and the Satyagraha March, was a protest led by Mahatma Gandhi against British rule in India. On March 12, 1930, Gandhi and his followers began walking from Sabarmati Ashram to the seacoast town of Dandi, Gujarat. They were protesting the British monopoly on salt production in India, which caused high prices and poor-quality salt for Indian consumers.
Jun 20, 2014 · The Salt Tax Gandhi during the Salt March, March 1930/public domain. After proclaiming the Declaration of Independence of India on January 26, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi came to an impasse in his political career focused on freeing India from British rule.
Sep 27, 2019 · Gandhi organized a 241-mile-long protest march to the west coast of Gujarat, where he and his acolytes harvested salt on the shores of the Arabian Sea. In response, Britain imprisoned over 60,000 ...
Salt Satyagraha and Dandi March In all the stirring annals of our Freedom Movement, few events are as dramatic, inspiring and significant as the historic Dandi March led by the Father of our Nation-Mahatma Gandhi. On one level, the March was intended to protest against the nefarious provisions of the Salt Tax imposed by the British.
The success of the march inspired mass disobedience across the land, with millions of people following Gandhi’s example by breaking the salt laws. It’s estimated that around 60,000 people were eventually arrested by the British, and Gandhi himself was hauled away while preparing for a non-violent raid on the Dharasana Salt Works in Gujarat.
During the march, he stopped in villages to convince government officials to resign in protest and to encourage people to pledge nonviolence. When he got to the sea, Gandhi collected a chunk of salt, which was against the law. The act inspired a crime wave of illegal salt collection and thousands of arrests.
The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi. The twenty four day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly.
