Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Salt Satyagraha or Dandi March started in 1930


 

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.

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