March
12
Independence
Day
Mauritius : March 12 1968
March
12 : Dandi March Day
The Salt Satyagraha, which began with the Dandi March on March
12, 1930, was an important part of the Indian independence movement.
It was a campaign of nonviolent protest against the British
salt monopoly in colonial India, and triggered the wider Civil
Disobedience Movement. This was the most significant organized
challenge to British authority since the Non-cooperation movement
of 1920–22, and directly followed the Purna Swaraj declaration
of independence by the Indian National Congress on January 26,
1930. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (commonly called Mahatma Gandhi)
led the Dandi march from his base, Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad,
to the sea coast near the village of Dandi. As he continued
on this 24 day, 240 mile (390 km) march to produce salt without
paying the tax, growing numbers of Indians joined him along
the way. When Gandhi broke the salt laws at 6:30 am on April
6, 1930, it sparked large scale acts of civil disobedience against
the British Raj salt laws by millions of Indians. The campaign
had a significant effect on changing world and British attitudes
toward Indian independence and caused large numbers of Indians
to join the fight for the first time.
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