what is the significance of the dandi march in indian history?
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It led to the mass Civil Disobedience Movement is the significance of Dandi March.
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 Ahmadabad to the coast of the Arabian Sea. On April 6, 1930, he formally launched the Civil Disobedience Movement. However, the march concluded in the imprisonment of nearly 60,000 people.