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Gandhian Era · 12 March – 6 April 1930

Dandi March

Painting of villagers gathering salt from salt pans on the Gujarat coast

Gandhi walked 385 km from Sabarmati to Dandi and broke the salt law, starting the Civil Disobedience Movement.

Causes

  • Salt tax affecting every Indian
  • Purna Swaraj resolution

Consequences

  • Salt laws broken across India
  • Over 60,000 arrested
  • Gandhi–Irwin Pact (1931)

Significance

Turned an everyday item into a symbol of resistance and drew world attention.

People

Mahatma GandhiSardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Key terms

Civil DisobedienceSatyagraha

Part of

Civil DisobedienceWomen's Participation

Sources

  1. Bipan Chandra et al., India's Struggle for Independence (Penguin, 1988)
  2. NCERT, Themes in Indian History Part III, Class XII