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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- The Dandi March was Mahatma Gandhi's 24-day, 240-mile walk from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi in 1930 to break the salt law and launch the Civil Disobedience Movement.
- Why did Gandhi choose salt as the symbol of the Civil Disobedience Movement?
- What were the start and end points and dates of the Dandi March?
- How did the Dandi March connect to the Gandhi–Irwin Pact?
- Who led the parallel salt satyagrahas during the movement?

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1. 26 January 1930

   The Dandi March, also called the Salt Satyagraha, was the inaugural act of the Civil Disobedience Movement, sanctioned by the Lahore Session of the Indian Na…

2. 12 March 1930

   The march began on from the Sabarmati (Satyagraha) Ashram near Ahmedabad with 78 chosen volunteers and concluded on 6 April 1930 at the coastal village of D…

3. 6 April 1930

   The march began on 12 March 1930 from the Sabarmati (Satyagraha) Ashram near Ahmedabad with 78 chosen volunteers and concluded on at the coastal village of…

4. 5 May 1930

   The colonial state arrested over 60,000 people, including Gandhi himself on .

5. 5 March 1931

   The movement led directly to the First Round Table Conference (1930), the Gandhi–Irwin Pact of (which secured release of political prisoners and Congress pa…

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On 6 April 1930, Mahatma Gandhi reached Dandi and lifted a handful of natural salt from the seashore, breaking the British salt law and igniting the nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement.

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