Question

give a brief account of Dandi March

Answer 1

Gandhiji started the Dandi March on 6th of April from his Ashram in Sabarmati to the coastal town of Dandi it was accompanied by 78 volunteers and they walked 24 miles for 10 days when they reached Dandi they broke the salt law and manufactured salt

Answer 2

The Salt March, also known as the
Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha , was an act of nonviolent
civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to produce salt from the seawater in the coastal village of Dandi (now in
Gujarat ), as was the practice of the local populace until British officials introduced taxation on salt production, deemed their sea-salt reclamation activities illegal, and then repeatedly used force to stop it. The 24-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly. It gained worldwide attention which gave impetus to the
Indian independence movement and started the nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement. Mahatma Gandhi started this march with 78 of his trusted volunteers. Walking ten miles a day for 24 days, the march spanned over 240 miles.
The march was the most significant organised challenge to British authority since the Non-cooperation movement of 1920–22, and directly followed the
Purna Swaraj declaration of sovereignty and self-rule by the Indian National Congress on 26 January 1930. [1]
Gandhi led the Dandi March from his base, Sabarmati Ashram, 240 miles (384 km) to the coastal village of Dandi, which was at a small town called Navsari (now in the state of Gujarat) to produce salt without paying the tax, growing numbers of Indians joined them along the way. When Gandhi broke the salt laws at 6:30 am on 6 April 1930, it sparked large scale acts of civil disobedience against the
British Raj salt laws by millions of Indians. [2] The campaign had a significant effect on changing world and British attitudes towards Indian sovereignty and self-rule [3][4] and caused large numbers of Indians to join the fight for the first time. After making salt at Dandi, Gandhi continued southward along the coast, making salt and addressing meetings on the way.
The Salt Satyagraha campaign was based upon Gandhi's principles of non-violent protest called satyagraha, which he loosely translated as "truth-force"." [8] Literally, it is formed from the Sanskrit words satya , "truth", and
agraha, "insistence". In early 1930 the Indian National Congress chose satyagraha as their main tactic for winning Indian sovereignty and self-rule from British rule and appointed Gandhi to organise the campaign. Gandhi chose the 1882 British Salt Act as the first target of satyagraha. The Salt March to Dandi, and the beating by British police of hundreds of nonviolent protesters in Dharasana, which received worldwide news coverage, demonstrated the effective use of civil disobedience as a technique for fighting social and political injustice.[9] The satyagraha teachings of Gandhi and the March to Dandi had a significant influence on American activists Martin Luther King Jr. , James Bevel , and others during the
Civil Rights Movement for civil rights for African Americans and other minority groups in the 1960s. [10]
Declaration of sovereignty and self-rule
Main article: Purna Swaraj
Mahatma Gandhi and Sarojini Naidu during the March.
At midnight on 31 December 1929, the
Indian National Congress raised the tricolour flag of India on the banks of the Ravi at Lahore . The Indian National Congress, led by Gandhi and
Jawaharlal Nehru, publicly issued the Declaration of sovereignty and self-rule, or Purna Swaraj , on 26 January 1930. [11] (Literally in Sanskrit , purna , "complete," swa , "self," raj, "rule," so therefore "complete self-rule".) The declaration included the readiness to withhold taxes, and the statement:
The Congress Working Committee gave Gandhi the responsibility for organising the first act of civil disobedience,
Choice of salt as protest focus
Initially, Gandhi's choice of the salt tax was met with incredulity by the Working Committee of the Congress, [15] Jawaharlal Nehru and Dibyalochan Sahoo were ambivalent;
Sardar Patel suggested a land revenue boycott instead. [16][17] The Statesman , a prominent newspaper, wrote about the choice: "It is difficult not to laugh, and we imagine that will be the mood of most thinking Indians." [17]
The British establishment too was not disturbed by these plans of resistance against the salt tax. The Viceroy himself, Lord Irwin, did not take
Preparing to march
Gandhi on the Salt March
On 5 February, newspapers reported that Gandhi would begin civil disobedience by defying the salt laws. The salt satyagraha would begin on 12 March and end in Dandi with Gandhi breaking the Salt Act on 6 April.