Monday, 6 January 2014

Q.Write a note on the Dandi March?

Ans.

Mahatma Gandhi started Civil Disobedience movement in 1930. Gandhiji along with his 79 trusted followers started from Sabarmati Ashram (Ahmedabad) to Dandi, a village on the coast of Gujarat. The object of the March was to break the Salt Laws. The Government had doubled the tax on salt and also prohibited the making of salt from sea water privately. On the morning of 6th April, Mahatma Gandhi broke the law by making salt from sea water at the sea coast. It was the beginning of the contrywide movement of Civil Disobedience.

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