- Title Pages
- By the same author
- Dedication
- <i>Preface</i>
- <i>Acknowledgements</i>
- One In Search of Gandhi
- Two Gandhi and Religion
- Three Gandhi in South Africa
- Four Gandhi against Racialism
- Five Encounters with Death
- Six Gandhi's Identity Crisis
- Seven Gandhi and Vivekananda
- Eight ‘And then Gandhi Came’
- Nine The Dandi March
- Ten ‘Quit India’
- Eleven Gandhi and Pan-Islamism
- Twelve Abdul Ghaffar Khan: the ‘Frontier Gandhi’
- Thirteen Gandhi and the Capitalists
- Fourteen Mahadev Desai
- Fifteen Gandhi and National Integration
- Sixteen Tragedy and Triumph: Gandhi and the Partition of India
- Seventeen Gandhi and Nehru
- Eighteen Three Disciples
- Ninteen Jamnalal Bajaj
- Twenty Gandhi as a Trade Union Leader
- Twenty One Pyarelal
- Twenty Two ‘I Have Become a Villager’
- Twenty Three Gandhi and the Jews
- Twenty Four Gandhi and the West
- Twenty Five Churchill's ‘Half-naked Faqir’
- Twenty Six C.F. Andrews and Gandhi
- Twenty Seven The Film Gandhi
- Twenty Eight Gandhi and Non-violence
- Twenty Nine Towards Understanding Gandhi
- Index
The Dandi March
The Dandi March
- Chapter:
- (p.78) Nine The Dandi March
- Source:
- In Search of Gandhi
- Author(s):
B. R. Nanda
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter recounts Gandhi’s 241-mile trek from Ahmedabad to Dandi, inaugurating the ‘Salt Satyagraha’, which proved to be one of the most dramatic and successful episodes in the history of the Indian freedom struggle. It discusses how Gandhi’s imprisonment stimulated rather than slackened civil disobedience. Civil disobedience, inspired by Gandhi’s action, resulted in the signing of the Gandhi–Irwin Pact in March 1931.
Keywords: Mahatma Gandhi, Dandi March, Ahmedabad, Salt Satyagraha, Indian freedom struggle, civil disobedience, Gandhi–Irwin Pact
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- Title Pages
- By the same author
- Dedication
- <i>Preface</i>
- <i>Acknowledgements</i>
- One In Search of Gandhi
- Two Gandhi and Religion
- Three Gandhi in South Africa
- Four Gandhi against Racialism
- Five Encounters with Death
- Six Gandhi's Identity Crisis
- Seven Gandhi and Vivekananda
- Eight ‘And then Gandhi Came’
- Nine The Dandi March
- Ten ‘Quit India’
- Eleven Gandhi and Pan-Islamism
- Twelve Abdul Ghaffar Khan: the ‘Frontier Gandhi’
- Thirteen Gandhi and the Capitalists
- Fourteen Mahadev Desai
- Fifteen Gandhi and National Integration
- Sixteen Tragedy and Triumph: Gandhi and the Partition of India
- Seventeen Gandhi and Nehru
- Eighteen Three Disciples
- Ninteen Jamnalal Bajaj
- Twenty Gandhi as a Trade Union Leader
- Twenty One Pyarelal
- Twenty Two ‘I Have Become a Villager’
- Twenty Three Gandhi and the Jews
- Twenty Four Gandhi and the West
- Twenty Five Churchill's ‘Half-naked Faqir’
- Twenty Six C.F. Andrews and Gandhi
- Twenty Seven The Film Gandhi
- Twenty Eight Gandhi and Non-violence
- Twenty Nine Towards Understanding Gandhi
- Index