Gandhi began his Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram. With this act, the Civil Disobedience Movement was launched. In today's ...

Gandhi and his troops walked for 25 days and 241 miles to the Arabian Sea to defy the unjust British law that prohibited the collection of salt in its colony. Master of the dramatic gesture ...

On this day, 95 years ago, on 12th March 1930, history was made in Ahmedabad when Mahatma Gandhi embarked on the legendary ...

On March 12, 1930, Mohandas Gandhi began his 24-day, 240 mile (387 kilometer) “Salt March” to the Indian village of Dandi ...

Nobody was allowed to pick or make salt. Gandhi thought this was a most appropriate law to break, as millions were using salt. The whole of India rose as a man. Gandhi’s salt march made it very clear ...

Gandhi marched to the coast to make salt from seawater, openly disobeying British law. Gandhi gave speeches along the way and tens of thousands of followers joined him. Similar acts of civil ...

Prime Minister Narendra paid homage to those who participated in the historic Dandi March, “a defining chapter in India’s ...

1888 he studied law in London. 1893 he moved to South ... an important Indian political activist, lead the Salt March In 1930, Gandhi led a major protest, know as the Salt March.

On the morning of April 6, Gandhi and his followers picked up handfuls of salt from along the seashore. In so doing, they technically ‘produced’ salt and broke the law.” A photograph ...