Question

Explain in detail the course of salt march.?
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Answer 1

Answer:

In his letter to Viceroy on 31st January 1930, MahatmaGandhi stated the following two types of demands:-

a) Demands of general interest.

b) Specific demands of different classes from Industrialist to

peasants.

2. In doing so his main Idea was to link all classes of the Indian

society with the national movement.

3. The most exciting demand was to abolish the salt tax because it

was consumed by both rich and poor.

4. The tax on the salt and the government Monopoly was seen as an

oppressive act of the government.

5. As the British government did not accept his demands by the

specific date (11th March 1931) he launched his civil disobedience

movement with his famous Dandi March.

6. On 6 April 1931, he reached Dandi and manufactured salt by

boiling the sea water. This marked by the beginning of the civil

disobedience movement.

Answer 2

The Salt March, which took place from March to April 1930 in India, was an act of civil disobedience led by Mohandas Gandhi to protest British rule in India. During the march, thousands of Indians followed Gandhi from his religious retreat near Ahmedabad to the Arabian Sea coast, a distance of some 240 miles.