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The March to Dandi :

• In 1930, Gandhiji started the march to break the Salt Law.
The March to According to this law,the state had a monopoly on the manufacture
Dandi : and sale of salt.
• Gandhiji and his followers marched from Sabarmati Ashram(in
Ahmedabad) to the coastal town of Dandi (in Surat) where they

broke the Salt law by gathering natural salt found on the sea-shore,
and boiling sea water to produce salt.
• The combined struggles of the Indian people bore fruit when the
Government of India Act of 1935 prescribed provincial autonomy
and the government announced election to the provincial legislature
in 1937.
• The Second World War broke out in September 1939. The
Congress leaders were ready to support the British war effort. But in
return, they wanted that India be granted Independence after the
war. The British refused to concede the demand and the Congress
ministers resigned in protest.