{"id":14358,"date":"2021-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/13-03-2021\/dandi-march-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:31:42","slug":"dandi-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/13-03-2021\/dandi-march-2","title":{"rendered":"Dandi March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In News <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister has flagged off a symbolic 386-kilometre &#8216;Dandi March&#8217; from Ahmedabad, which will culminate on April 6 at Dandi in Navsari district.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the 91st anniversary of the historic Salt March led by Mahatma Gandhi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dandi March<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as Salt Satyagraha and marked the first step of the Civil Disobedience movement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reasons<\/strong> behind the launch of Dandi March:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Simon Commission:<\/strong> No Indian was included in it despite protests by Congress and all major parties.\n<ul>\n<li>Britishers even mocked Indians by terming them incapable of framing their own constitution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lahore Declaration of Congress, 1929:<\/strong> It declared Complete Independence as the goal of Indian Freedom Struggle.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Non Acceptance of Gandhi\u2019s 11 Points Demand:<\/strong> Gandhi ji put forth 11 demands including release of all Political Prisoners, <strong>Issual of Arms license to Indians for self defence<\/strong>, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Gandhi ji after his 11 points demand was not met launched a non violent march from Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March 1930, travelled to 21 places and over 390 kms and reached Dandi on 5 April 1930.<\/li>\n<li>Gandhi also published an article titled &#8220;Duty of Disloyalty&#8221;. In the issue of Young India.<\/li>\n<li>Gandhi, Nehru, etc were arrested on breaking salt law which again instigated masses to take part in Civil Disobedience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why Salt was Chosen?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Salt appealed to masses as Repressive Salt Law prohibited Indians from processing and manufacturing salt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other Leaders of the movement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current-affairs\/05-03-2021\">Multiple leaders came forward in different regions like K Kelapan, C Rajagopalachari, Sarojini Naidu, Ambalal, etc.<\/a> (Please see Facts in News Dandi March for more details about leaders)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width:735px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align:top; width:468.0pt\">\n<p><strong>About Gandhi\u2019s Previous Experiments with Civil Disobedience<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Transvaal Protest in South Africa:<\/strong> Transvaal immigration act was opposed by Gandhi in South Africa.\n<ul>\n<li>1906: A legislation in Transvaal, required the Indians to register themselves and carry registration certificates at all times.<\/li>\n<li>Gandhi initiated passive resistance or \u201csatyagraha\u201d and called the Indians to burn their certificates in public.<\/li>\n<li>Later, the authorities even imposed restrictions on the interprovincial movement of Indians, and declared their Hindu marriages legally invalid.<\/li>\n<li>Finally in 1913, Gandhi launched a March from Natal to Transvaal, crossing the border illegally.<\/li>\n<li>These Marchers were sent to jail and treated brutally. But the struggle paid off, and under Gen.Smut-Gandhi agreement, most of their demands were accepted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Champaran Satyagrah:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It was Gandhi\u2019s first CDM in India<\/li>\n<li>Indigo farmers were relieved by less taxes at the end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/pm-narendra-modi-dandi-march-nehru-freedom-struggle-7226097\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News Prime Minister has flagged off a symbolic 386-kilometre &#8216;Dandi March&#8217; from Ahmedabad, which will culminate on April 6 at Dandi in Navsari district. It is the 91st anniversary of the historic Salt March led by Mahatma Gandhi. Dandi March It is also known as Salt Satyagraha and marked the first step of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,81],"class_list":["post-14358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-gs1","tag-modern-indian-history"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/62520396268277current-affairs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49738,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14358\/revisions\/49738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}