The March to Dandi
Mahatma Gandhi informed Lord Irwin about his plans on 2nd March 1930. The plan was to lead a group of people from his Ashram at Sabarmati on 12th March 1930 and walk through the villages of Gujarat. After reaching the coastal village of Dandi, he would break the salt law by making salt from seawater. Gandhiji started the march with 80 followers and gave strict instructions to not resort to any form of violence.
Journalists from around the world became interested in the movement and wrote articles on the same. He became a household name in the West and became famous worldwide. Sarojini Naidu joined him on the way and every day more and more people joined in, and on 5th April 1930, they reached Dandi. At that time, more than 50,000 people were participating in the march. On 6th April 1930, Gandhiji broke the salt law by making salt, which was followed by thousands of other people.
Dandi March: Salt Satyagraha
Dandi March(salt satyagraha): The Dandi March, also known as the Salt March, Salt Satyagraha, and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India . This march was of twenty four days which started from 12 march 1930 and lasted on 5 April 1930. It was a direct campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the monopoly of British on Salt. The Dandi March was a mass civil disobedience movement, which was started by Mahatma Gandhi, against the salt tax imposed by the British government in India. It was led by a large group of people from Sabarmati Ashram on 12th March 1930 to Dandi, a coastal town in Gujarat to break the salt law by the production of salt from seawater.
The Civil Disobedience Movement grew across the country as a result of the disobedience of the Salt Law. Salt production surged across the country during the initial phase of the civil disobedience campaign, and it then became a symbol of the people’s rejection of the government.
Let’s take a close look of this event.
Table of Content
- Dandi March – Salt Satyagraha
- Salt Satyagraha Background
- Dandi March by Mahatma Gandhi
- Dandi March and Salt Law
- The March to Dandi
- Impact of Dandi March