a short note on dandi march

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.

In 1930, Gandhi launched yet another of his disobedience campaign. Gandhiji wrote to the Viceroy demanding abolition of salt-tax and the Government monopoly of the manufacture of salt. When the Viceroy refused to do so, Gandhiji decided to start the Satyagraha movement by breaking the salt act.

"On bended knees I asked for bread and I have received stone instead", Gandhi remarked, and making good his promise, he set out on March 12 with seventy-eight of his followers and disciples from Sabarmati Ashram on the 241-mile march to Dandi on the sea. All along the way, he addressed large crowds, and with each passing day an increasing number of people joined Gandhi on the march. It is said that the roads were watered, and fresh flowers and green leaves strewn on the path; and as the satyagrahis walked, they did so to the tune of one of Gandhi's favorite bhajans, Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram, sung by the great Hindustani vocalist, Pandit Paluskar. On April 5, Gandhi arrived at Dandi: short prayers were offered, Gandhi addressed the crowd, and at 8:30 AM he picked up a small lump of natural salt. Gandhi had now broken the law; Sarojini Naidu, his close friend and associate, shouted: "Hail, Deliverer!" No sooner had Gandhi violated the law than everywhere others followed suit: within one week the jails were full, and subsequently Gandhi himself was to be taken into jail.

The salt satyagraha was symbolic. Its real significance was to break all tyrannical and unjust laws of the Government. The Dandi march started the Civil Disobedience Movement in all parts of country.

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Salt is a basic requirement for every person. The british government of making  salt and passed a law banning manufacture of salt. On March12 1930,Mahatma Gandhi began his epic dandi marchfrom Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi. This is how the march came to be known as Dandi March. He was accmpanied by 78 supporters.They made salt from sea water and broke the law.

The Dandi March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, began with the Dandi March on March 12, 1930, and was an important part of the Indian independence movement. It was adirect action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India, and triggered the wider Civil Disobedience Movement. This was the most significant organized challenge to British authority since the Non-cooperation movement of 1920–22, and directly followed the Purna Swaraj declaration of independence by the Indian National Congress on January 26, 1930. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi(commonly called Mahatma Gandhi) led the Dandi march from his base, Sabarmati Ashramnear 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 the tax, growing numbers of Indians joined him along the way. When Gandhi broke the salt laws at 6:30 am on April 6, 1930, it sparked large scale acts of civil disobedience against the British Raj salt laws by millions of Indians.^[1] The campaign had a significant effect on changing world and British attitude towards Indian independence^[2][3] and caused large numbers of Indians to join the fight for the first time.

(i) Mahatma Gandhi started his famous Dandi March along with his 78 trusted volunteers.

(ii) The march was about 240 miles.

(iii) It started from Gandhi's ashram in Sabarmati to Gujarat's coastal town of Dandi.

(iv) The volunteers walked for 24 days, about 10 miles a day.

(v) Thousands came to hear Gandhiji, wherever he stopped.

(vi) On 6th April, he reached Dandi and violated the salt law by manufacturing salt, by boiling sea water.

Hi,

• Dandi march was an event of Civil Disobedience Movement .
• Gandhi wrote a letter to Lord Irwin containing eleven demands which was not accepted.
• Abolition of salt tax was one of them
• On 12 march 1930, Gandhiji left his ashram at Sabarmati, after a short prayer with 78 delegates
• He marched 200  miles to Dandi, and gained momentum on his way as others joined him
• On April 6, 1930 Gandhi broke salt law.
• This sparked off a civil disobedience movement nationwide