DANDI

• Dandi, 16km from Navsari district is not only India's most talked-about village, but it also has z 92-year global identity which will never fade.
• It's the pilgrimage of the Indian national movement, where Bapu said after just making a handful of salt, "with one handful of salt, I am beginning to shake the roots of British rule".

All about Dandi March 

• When the British levied a tax on salt, Bapu led a nationwide salt satyagraha with his nonviolent path.
• The Civil Disobedience movement or Dandi march as we call it.
• Mahatma Gandhi referred British government's salt tax as the ''most horrible levy''as he defer the law, British tax on sal was extremely high and unreasonable at the time.
• On March 11, 1930, a gathering of over 10,000 people collected at Sabarmati for an evening prayer, where mahatma Gandhi gave a remarkable speech about his march.
• He was 61 years at that time and by the time he reached Dandi, he was accompanied by 50 thousand people.
• When Mahatma Gandhi decided to hold a march to Dandi, he decided not to include women in this march.
• Mahatma Gandhi decided women would play an important role in the movement by spinning the spinning wheel and laying siege to liquor stores.
• Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay met Gandhi and persuaded him to include women in this Salt Satyagraha.
• In 1936, Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay made connections outside India to help India's independence, she was elected as the President of the All India Women's conference.