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1930 CE · movement protest

Dandi March Launches the Salt Satyagraha

Gandhi left Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March 1930 and reached the coastal village of Dandi on 5 April. On 6 April he broke the colonial salt law, turning salt into the symbolic opening issue of a much broader Civil Disobedience Movement that spread through many regions and forms of protest.

The Dandi March & Civil Disobedience
The Dandi March & Civil Disobedience

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