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.
In early 1930 Gandhi decided to mount
a highly visible demonstration against the increasingly repressive salt tax by
marching through what is now the western Indian state of Gujaratfrom
his ashram (religious retreat) at Sabermati (near Ahmadabad) to the
town of Dandi (near Surat) on the Arabian Sea coast. He set out on
foot on March 12, accompanied by several dozen followers. After each day’s
march the group stopped in a different village along the route, where
increasingly larger crowds would gather to hear Gandhi rail against the
unfairness of the tax on poor people. Hundreds more would join the core group
of followers as they made their way to the sea until on April 5 the entourage reached Dandi after a journey of some
240 miles (385 km). On the morning of April 6, Gandhi and his followers
picked up handfuls of salt along the shore, thus technically “producing”
salt and breaking the law.
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