Question

why did gandhiji start the civil disobedience movement by breaking the salt march?

Answer 1

As salt is the basic item we people use in the food to eat. When Britishers came and banned salt in the village, Gandhiji couldn't tolerate and he broke the rules and went to sea and made salt with the help of the villagers.

By this way civil disobedient movement was started. This was also called as Salt Sataygarha or Dandhi March.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

British had the monopoly over salt manufacturing and selling. The Namak Satyagrah was in protest against the steep tax the British levied on salt. It was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India to produce salt from seawater, as it had been practised by the Indian people. The British officials deemed such production illegal and forced the people to buy it at expensive rates.

Although salt was not the main problem Indians were facing under British rule, it was chosen to symbolize the start of civil disobedience movement because salt was deemed as something on which each Indian had the basic right. Also, salt could be made free of cost from the ocean instead of paying hefty taxes on its purchase from the British.

And so, Mahatma Gandhi declared resistance to British salt policies to be the unifying theme for the civil disobedience movement and thus started Dandi March.

The gesture which marked the breaking of the British Salt Law

Although the plan of Dandi March was to reach the coastal town and work the salt flats on the beach which were encrusted with crystallized sea salt at every high tide, the police crushed the salt deposits into the mud. So Mahatma Gandhi reached down and picked up a small lump of natural salt out of the mud, thus, defying the British salt law.