Dandi March/Salt Satyagraha (1930)

                       To achieve the goal of ‘complete Independence,’ Gandhi launched another civil disobedience movement.

                       Along with 78 followers, Gandhi started his famous march from Sabarmati Ashram on March 12, 1930 for the small village Dandi (Navsari District) to break the Salt Law. 

                      Gandhi covered a distance of 240 miles in 24 days (March 12-Apirl5). On reaching the seashore  on April 6, he broke the Salt Gandhi inaugurated the Civil Disobedience Movement ,a movement that was to remain unsurpassed in the history of Indian national Movement for the countrywide mass participation it unleashed.

                     The movement became so powerful that is sparked off patriotism even among the Indian soldiers in the army. The Garhwal soldiers refused to fire on the people at Peshwar.Gandhji was arrested on May 5, 1930.

                    This was followed by another round of boycott of foreign goods and it took the shape of a nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement in which ladies also participated.

                     Soon thereafter followed repressive measures such as mass arrests, lathi –charge, police –firing etc. About 1, 00,000 people went in jail.