DANDI MARCH

About: 

• Names: The Salt March is also known as the Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha. 
  
  
• People involved: It was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi. He started this march with around 80 volunteers. Many people joining him on the way. 
  
  
• Duration: The 24-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930. 
  
  
• Journey: Gandhi led the Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram, 240 miles to the coastal village of Dandi, which was at a small town called Navsari (in Gujarat). 
  
  
• Objective: 
  • It was a direct-action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly under the 1882 British Salt Act. 
    
    
  • Objective was to produce salt from the seawater in the coastal village of Dandi, as was the practice of the local populace until British officials introduced taxation on salt production and deemed their sea-salt reclamation activities illegal. 
    
    
  
  
  
• Significance: 
  • The march directly followed the Poorna Swaraj declaration of sovereignty and self-rule by the Indian National Congress on 26 January 1930. 
    
    
  • It started the nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement. When Gandhi broke the salt laws on 6 April 1930, it sparked large scale acts of civil disobedience against the British Raj salt laws by millions of Indians.