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The Salt march, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March, and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India, led by Mahatma Gandhi. The 24-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly .
Saputara - a hill station located 172 km from Surat, perched in the Sahayadri mountain range. It is the only hill station in Gujarat. Dandi - a beach located 45 km from Surat, famous for the Salt March ([Dandi Satyagraha), held in 1930 by Mahatma Gandhi. Ubharat Beach - a beach located 45 km from Surat and 30 km from Navsari. Dumas Beach - a ...
It was also from here that on 12 March 1930, Gandhi marched to Dandi, 241 miles from the ashram, with 78 companions in protest at the British Salt Law, which increased the taxes on Indian salt in an effort to promote sales of British salt in India. It was this march and the subsequent illegal production of salt (Gandhi boiled up some salty mud ...
2 March 1930, Gandhi writes to the Viceroy, informing him of the proposed march to break the Salt Law. On 7 March 1930 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is arrested at Ras Village while preparing for and campaigning about the march. 2 12 March 1930, After early morning prayers, Kasturba applies Tilak to Gandhi as he sets out to Darma-yatra- Satyagraha.
Dandi is a village in the Jalalpore taluka, Navsari District, Gujarat, India. It is located on the coast of the Arabian Sea near the city of Navsari . The village got into worldwide prominence in 1930, when Mahatma Gandhi selected it to be the destination for the Salt March . [ 1 ]
On 12 March 1930 CE when Gandhi started the Dandi March with some of his supporters, ... Kadia Dungar situated at a distance of 40 km (25 mi) south of Bharuch is a ...
Dandi beach is one of the cleanest beaches in the Arabian Sea. Dandi Beach is historically prominent as Mahatma Gandhi led the salt sathyagraha from Sabarmati Ashram (Ahmedabad) to Dandi. This is the beach where Mahatma Gandhi broke the salt tax law of the British after the Salt March .
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