SHORT NOTE OF DANDI MARCH (1930)
D andi march (1930) is also called the salt satyagraha. Major nonviolent protest action in India led by mohandas (Mahatma Gandhi ) in march _april 1930. Among with 78 followers, Gandhi started his march form sabarmati Ashram on March 12,1930 fro the small village Dandi to break the salt law. He reached the sea shore on april 6,1930. He picked a handful of salt and inaugurated the civil Disobedience movement. 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 Gujarat from his ashram (religious retreat) at sabramti (near Ahmadabad) to 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...

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