15 Mar Dandi March
(GS Paper 1, Recollecting the Past
Source – India Today)
Why in news
The Prime Minister has flag of a a commemorative Dandi March on 12th March to launch the celebrations of the 75th year of independence
Key objective
- Prime Minister has flag of the 24 day long Dandi March from a ground beside the Abhay Ghat the resting place of late Prime Minister Morarji Desai near the Sabarmati Ashram
- Dandi March will be Re enacted in its entirety.
- It has begun on 12th of March as it had taken place in 1930 and end on April 5 during which this 81 pedestrians will walk all the way to Dandi on the sea coast 386 kilometre away
- Prime Minister has launched the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebration to Mark 75th years of India’s Independence
- Mahotsav is a series of events to be celebrated as a Janam Utsav in the spirit of jan bhagidari
Dandi March 1930
- The main objective was to protest against the steep tax the British levied on salt
- The 1882 salt act gave the British the Monopoly on the collection and manufacture of salt levying a tax in the process
- The violation of this act was a criminal offence
- upon reaching the sea shore in Dandi Mahatma Gandhi broke the law by producing legal salt
- this letter turn into a mass civil disobedience movement throughout India Millions broke salt laws Binder making salt or buying illegal salt
why salt was chosen for protest
- salt was chosen to symbolise the start of civil disobedience movement because it was deemed as something on which Indian had the basic right
- in the Gandhian strategy it has always been seen that he made local movement in global it Champaran Kheda or Salt Satyagraha
significance of The Dandi March
- the salt march was the collective beginning of a mass resistance movement against the British tyranny
- Civil obedience in different forms continued in different provinces. special stress was laid on the boycott of foreign goods
- Khyati Khare
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