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 started from 12
March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and
nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly.
Gandhi led
a large group of people from Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March 1930 till Dandi, a
coastal village in Gujarat, to break the salt law by producing salt from
seawater.
