Question

short note on dandi march

Answer 1

THE SALT SATYAGRAHA ,WHICH BEGAN WITH THE DANDI MARCH ON MARCH 12,1930,WAS AN IMPORTANT PART OF INDIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT.IT WAS A CAMPAIGN OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AGAINST THE BRITISH SALT TAX IN COLONIAL INDIA,AND TRIGGERED THE WIDER CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT . THIS WAS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ORGANIZED CHALLENGE TO BRITISH AUTHORITY SINCE THE NON -CORPORATION MOVEMENT OF 1920-22,AND DIRECTLY FOLLOWED THE PURNA SWARAJ DECLARATION OF INDIPENDENCE BY THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS ON JANUARY 26,1930.MAHATAMA GANDHI LED THE DANDI MARCH FROM HIS BASE,SABARMATI ASHRAM NEAR AHMEDABAD ,TO THE SEA COAST NEAR THE VILLAGE OF DANDI.AS HE CONTINUED ON THIS 24 DAY,240 MILE (390 KM) MARCH TO PRODUCE SALT WITHOUT PAYING TAX ,GROWING NUMBERS OF INDIANS JOINED HIM ALONG THE WAY .WHN GANDHI JI BROKE THE SALT LAWS IN DANDI AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE MARCH ON APRIL 6,1930,IT SPARKED LARGE SCALE ACTS OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AGAINST THE BRITISH RAJ SALT LAWS BY MILLIONS OF INDIANS.

Answer 2

Taxes on salt have been implemented in India since earliest times. But the tax on salt increased greatly at the time of British rule in India. The British government forced the Indian people to buy the vital mineral salt. The Britishers were exercising a monopoly over the production and marketing of salt and imposed heavy taxes on salt. Therefore, in response to the taxes introduced by the British government on salt M.K Gandhi launched a salt march from March to April 1930. During this march, thousands of Indians supported Gandhi from his spiritual retreat near Ahmedabad to the coast of the Arabian Sea. The march concluded in the imprisonment of nearly 60,000 people.