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\nMahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March, also known as the Salt March, was a nonviolent protest against the British salt tax. The tax made it illegal for Indians to collect or sell salt, forcing them to buy it from the British. The march culminated in Gandhi and his followers collecting salt from the seacoast at Dandi, symbolically breaking the British law. Common salt is primarily sodium chloride (NaCl).
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\n– The Dandi March was a protest against the British salt monopoly and tax.
\n– The act of civil disobedience involved making salt from seawater.
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\nThe Dandi March began on March 12, 1930, and ended on April 6, 1930. It was a significant campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience initiated by Mahatma Gandhi in India. It was a key event in the Indian independence movement.
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