about dandi march in detail
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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 Disobediencemovement.
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 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...
No arrests were made that day, and Gandhi continued his satyagraha against the salt tax for the next two months...
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Dandi March
Dandi March or Salt March, also referred as the Dandi Satyagraha, was a the 24-day Salt March, which was non-violent in nature and is historically significant as it led to the mass Civil Disobedience Movement. The Salt March was an act of civil disobedience led by Mohandas Gandhi to protest British rule in India.
The place Gandhiji selected as the site for his symbolic breaking of the provisions of the hated Salt Tax, was Dandi, a seaside village in Gujarat. He decided to march the full distance of 241 miles, from his ashram at Ahmedabad, with a select band of co-workers. On the way thousands more people joined the march. The Dandi March resulted in the arrest of nearly 60,000 people, including Gandhi himself. But the movement continued without him. It gained more supporters and began to spread.
Gandhi's plan was to begin civil disobedience with a satyagraha aimed at the British salt tax. The 1882 Salt Act gave the British a monopoly on the collection and manufacture of salt, limiting its handling to government salt depots and levying a salt tax. Violation of the Salt Act was a criminal offence.
The Salt March was one of the first major demonstrations of nonviolent resistance to the British colonial rule led by Mahatma Gandhi. As such, it set forth many of the principles followed in later actions as the Indian independence movement gained momentum as more followers joined the movement.