Mahatma Gandhi and 78 volunteers left Sabarmati Ashram for the coastal village of Dandi to challenge the British salt tax and monopoly. The march turned an everyday necessity into a mass civil-disobedience campaign, drawing wider participation and arrests across India. Its organization connected local hardship to imperial extraction and helped renew the independence movement during the Great Depression.
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What did Gandhi’s Salt March challenge?
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Gandhi used the salt law, an everyday burden, as a focus for civil disobedience against colonial rule.
The Salt March began on 12 March 1930 as a protest against colonial salt law.
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Gandhi and volunteers began the march from Sabarmati Ashram toward Dandi.