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	Civil Disobedience : Complete Information about Dandi March
		The second halt of the Dandi marchers was at Bareja, a village with a Population of 2,500.
		On 19 March, the party of satyagrahis reached Ras Taluka where Sardar Patel was arrested and sentenced to prison and in which he had carried on such a vigorous struggle in 1924 that the Government had finally to admit its 'error and mete out justice that should not have required a struggle.
		Throughout the march, Gandhiji went on preaching his cult of truth and non- violence to the multitudes that gathered from far and near and he did not hesitate to impose the strictest discipline on the satyagrahis that flocked to his banner.
	www.mkgandhi.org /civil_dis/dandi_march.htm (4981 words)

	Surat
		Dandi: Situated on the coastline and well known as a salt centre, Dandi has acquired a name in history after the famous 'Dandi March Salt Satyagraha' launched by Gandhiji in March, 1930 AD.
		While overtly the Dandi march purported to protest against the hateful Salt Tax levied by the British, the underlying purpose was to kindle the spark of Civil Disobedience and thereby attain independence.
		On a warm April morning in 1930, Gandhi and his 78 followers marched 241 miles to Dandi and formally breached the Salt Law, an act that would go down in the annals of history as the first salvo to be fired against the British Empire.
	www.indiatravelite.com /surat/suratsight.htm (181 words)

	Dandi March and 15th August 2005
		On March 12, 1930, Gandhi and approximately 78 male satyagrahis set out, on foot, for the coastal village of Dandi some 385 kilo metres from their starting point in Sabarmati, a journey which was to last 25 days.
		To commemorate the Great Salt March, the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation staged a sordid political reenactment on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Dandi March from 12 March, 2005 to 7 April, 2005.
		The start of the march on 12 March, 2005 in Ahmedabad was blessed and graced by Sonia Gandhi (spiritual heir of Mahatma Gandhi if not his filial heir), Chairperson of the National Advisory Council, as well as nearly half of the Indian cabinet, many of whom walked for the first few kilometres only.
	www.indiacause.com /columns/OL_050821.htm (976 words)

	PIB Press Release
		March 12, 2005 is yet another red-letter day in the history of India, when the nation witnessed the re-enactment of historic Dandi March by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 75 years ago to protest the British rule for taxing natural salt.
		Dandi march was just a symbolic start to the Civil Disobedience movement that began immediately afterwards in all parts of the country that shook the British Empire.
		March 2005 by administering a pledge of communal harmony and development to the volunteers, who included freedom fighters, their successors, women, students and youth.
	pib.nic.in /release/rel_print_page.asp?relid=7880 (1127 words)

	Gandhi's Dandi March (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Salt March to the remote seaside village of Dandi, about 320 km from Ahmedabad, and the Civil Disobedience campaign it launched was the greatest nonviolent battle by history's greatest nonviolent campaigner.
		The Salt March sees Gandhi and his followers leaving his ashram on the banks of the Sabarmati river on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on March 12, 1930 and breaking the British salt laws about three weeks later at the seaside hamlet of Dandi.
		The Gandhi of the Dandi March was not merely a mover of historical and political events, or even social ones.
	www.lifepositive.com /Spirit/masters/mahatma-gandhi/dandi-march.asp (1576 words)

	Dandi march with a touch of 2005
		The Dandi March is one of the most celebrated non-violent events in the history of mankind; where a wrong law was deliberately broken without resort to violence.
		The Congress march and the Tushar Gandhi march were to be separate. "Since we are both doing the same thing for the same reasons, we saw no reason to hold separate marches," explained Minister of Sports Sunil Dutt, who is in charge of the Congress participants.
		It appears that the 2005 Dandi march is anniversary event, where in people are supposed to remember the freedom fighters of 1930 but the over...
	in.rediff.com /news/2005/mar/12dandi.htm (1098 words)

	Nonviolence
		The Salt March to the remote sea-side village of Dandi and the civil disobedience campaign it launched was the greatest nonviolent battle by possibly history's greatest nonviolent campaigner.
		The Salt March, at least as it has entered the history books, is about Gandhi and his chosen 78 followers, leaving Gandhi's ashram on the banks of the Sabarmati river on the outskirts of Ahmedabad early on the morning of 12 March, 1930.
		The Gandhi of the Dandi March was not merely a mover of historical and political events, or even social ones, he was also a man working out his own existence - doing what he had to do because his inner beliefs told him that it was right.
	www.transnational.org /SAJT/forum/Nonviolence/2001/Weber_SaltMarch.html (8379 words)

	Articles On & By Gandhi
		On March 12, 1930, Gandhi and around 78 male satyagraha set out, on foot, fort the coastal village of Dandi some 380 kms from their starting point in sabarmati, a journey which was to last 23 day.
		Gandhi termed the march as the first implored his thousands of followers to begin to make salt wherever, along the seashore, “war” on the salt tax was to be continued during the National Week, that is, up to April 13.
		This period is considered the apex of Gandhi’s political appeal, as the march mobilized many new followers from all of Indian society and the march grabbed the world’s attention.
	www.mkgandhi.org /articles/dandi.htm (630 words)

	Sonia Gandhi flags off 'Dandi March'
		The 75th anniversary 'Dandi March' began with much fanfare on Saturday in Ahmedabad in Gujarat, with hundreds of men and women, old and young, walking enthusiastically down the road that Mahatma Gandhi took in 1930 as he decided to oppose the British government's salt laws.
		The "re-enactment" of the historical Dandi March is nothing but a political gimmick by the Congress Party which is brazenly trying to usurp a national...
		It is great that Sonia Gandhi has enacted the Dandi march which was the true symbol of political and economic emacipation.Her call for using politics...
	www.rediff.com /news/2005/mar/12dandi1.htm (699 words)

	Weblog
		During Gandhi's 1930 march, Vijalpur was a quiet village.
		In "On the Salt March" Thomas Weber writes: "Kaphleta was a Muslim majority village where the Hindus and Muslims worked together to construct a bridge over the river behind their village so that the marchers could cross.
		When they left the Ashram on March 12 in Ahmedabad, they believed they might be marching to their deaths.
	saltmarch.org /weblog.php (3241 words)

	sabarmati ashram,sabarmati ashram Gujarat, Gandhi Ashram,mahatma Gandhi ashram,sabarmati ashram Gujarat india
		The image of a frail man bending to pick up a fistful of salt in defiance of the Empire is deeply embedded not just in the psyche of the Indian people but among the populace of the world.
		This long march, now famous as the Dandi March, commenced from an ashram on the banks of the Sabarmati and culminated in a swampy land on March 5, 1930.
		They have plans to make it a shrine-bright lights and pedestrian paths with guides who narrate the history of the Dandi March as tourists stroll across the bridge that Gandhi took when he left the Ashram for the last time.
	www.indiaprofile.com /destinations/sabarmati.htm (858 words)

	Dandi March and 15th August 2005
		On March 12, 1930, Gandhi and approximately 78 male satyagrahis set out, on foot, for the coastal village of Dandi some 385 kilo metres from their starting point in Sabarmati, a journey which was to last 25 days.
		To commemorate the Great Salt March, the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation staged a sordid political reenactment on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Dandi March from 12 March, 2005 to 7 April, 2005.
		The start of the march on 12 March, 2005 in Ahmedabad was blessed and graced by Sonia Gandhi (spiritual heir of Mahatma Gandhi if not his filial heir), Chairperson of the National Advisory Council, as well as nearly half of the Indian cabinet, many of whom walked for the first few kilometres only.
	www.ivarta.com /columns/OL_050821.htm (976 words)

	saltman
		The Salt Satyagraha, also known as the Salt March to Dandi, was an act of protest against the British salt tax in Colonial India.
		So, on March 12, 1930, Gandhi and approximately 78 male satyagrahis set out, on foot, for the coastal village of Dandi, Gujarat, some 240 miles from their starting point in Sabarmati.
		T he picture of Gandhi, firm of step and walking staff in hand, was to be among the most enduring of the images of him, and it is through this representation that the Bengali artist Nandlal Bose sought to immortalize Gandhi.
	saltman.blogspot.com (2269 words)

	The Competition Master - Infobank - Indian History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dandi March: Dandi is a small village on the sea-shore of Gujarat.
		It is associated with Mahatma Gandhi's long march on foot from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi.
		Dandi March had no parallel in the history of mankind.
	www.competitionmaster.com /pages/infobank/infohist/d.html (977 words)

	Sonia leads Dandi March
		The march, a brainchild of the Mahatma's great grandson Tushar Gandhi, had got hijacked by the propaganda machinery of the Congress party somewhere along the way.
		In fact, Tushar admits that the logistics of the march were so huge that it perhaps would have been impossible without the help of the Congress.
		So strong has been the disconnect of Dandi from the political mainstream that this place of great historical value has had no information centre to propagate Gandhi's ideals for the past 15 years.
	www.spiritofchennai.com /news/a0217.htm (465 words)

	J. Sri Raman \| Mahatma's Forgotten March
		Before starting the march, he wrote to British Viceroy Lord Irwin: "I regard this tax to be the most iniquitous of all from the poor man's standpoint.
		Long after Dandi, Gandhi was to recall how an "inner voice" revealed to him the path he sought, at a moment when the movement seemed to have lost direction.
		Talking of a "fistful of salt" as the symbol of India's freedom, in a statement during the march, Gandhi told the people: "Let the fist be broken, but let not the precious salt be surrendered." He tried to teach the people that guns cold be answered with their grim resolve.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/printer_040505M.shtml (850 words)

	Re-enactment of Dandi March begins - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi was in the hearts of many, both participants and onlookers, as the re-enactment of the historic Dandi March began here early morning on Saturday in a serene atmosphere.
		Convener of the Dandi March and Union Sports Minister Sunil Dutt in his brief speech described “non-violence” as a bigger weapon than atom bomb.
		After the Dandi March passed from the Sabarmati Ashram, city unit BJP leaders and workers “purified” the area by “gangajal” in the afternoon, DHNS reports from Ahmedabad.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/mar132005/n9.asp (700 words)

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		And now we are told that on the 75th anniversary of Gandhi's famous March from Sabarmati to Dandi, Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh will participate "only on its inaugural leg" of a rerun of the event.
		The finest moments for this journal were during the Salt March and its aftermath when under extremely trying circumstances, it functioned as the journal of public record for the satyagrahis.
		And on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the momentous Salt March what we need from the Congress Party is an honest attempt to provide minimal employment guarantees to all, not yet another ceremony to appropriate a legacy that belongs to all Indians.
	www.cfar.umd.edu /users/venu/dandi.html (2288 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		Sonia Gandhi at Matwad, 310 km from Ahmedabad, during the commemorative Dandi march on Tuesday.
		Dandi, April 6: The sun was merciless, but the three hundred thousand people did not seem to notice.
		Presiding over the function, Sonia Gandhi, who reached Dandi yesterday by marching along with participants on the last leg of the nearly 400-km yatra, said ?there is something fascinating about this place?.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050407/asp/nation/story_4583424.asp (475 words)

	Gandhiji's Dandi March route to be developed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The route taken by Mahatma Gandhi for his history-making march from Ahmedabad to Dandi in 1930 will be developed as a memorial of India's independence struggle following the heritage status given to the track, an official release said here Friday.
		On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the event, the central government has allocated Rs.3.44 billion to build bridges across the rivers of Narmada, Tapi and Mahi.
		The heritage route will be developed connecting villages and towns that Mahatma Gandhi had visited during his march towards Dandi in March-April, 1930 to protest a tax the British rulers had imposed on salt.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20060610/358551.html (136 words)

	mr040405
		Toward the end of his talk, Arun Gandhi mentioned that his own son was leading a commemorative march in India this spring on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his great-grandfather’s leading the Salt March.
		On March 12, 1930 Gandhi set out with seventy-eight of his followers on a 241 mile march to Dandi on the sea.
		The Dandi March is considered the turning point in the struggle for India’s independence which was achieved in 1947.
	www.marquette.edu /umi/reflections/mr040405.shtml (391 words)

	Dandi March by Jeff Knaebel
		Nehru said of Gandhi's march to Dandi: "There is a fire of great resolve in him, and love of truth and love of freedom that inspires." LOVE OF TRUTH.
		Historical Footnote: The Dandi Salt March of 1930 was undertaken by Gandhi to protest the British tax on salt, which was a great hardship imposed upon the poor.
		This essay is a talk given at the 75th anniversary celebration of Gandhi's march to Dandi.
	lewrockwell.com /orig6/knaebel1.html (997 words)

	Mahatma Gandhi
		Gandhi protested against the British monopoly on salt in India by organizing a peaceful march to the sea, where he and his followers symbolically made salt by evaporating sea water.
		The march marked the start of a new campaign of non-violent protest against British rule in India and boosted the growing Indian independence movement.
		About 20,000 persons were gathered at the entrance of Gandhi’s quarters here when the Mahatma and his followers set out, but most of those who had followed the procession turned back at the boundary and returned to their homes.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0125481/gandhienglish/dandi.html (705 words)

	Now, Dandi looks westward for help -Ahmedabad-Cities-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		DANDI: When the Dandi Namak Satyagraha Smarak Trust here decided to build a world-class centre for research on Gandhian principles, the money came from Britain.
		So, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reaches here for the final ceremony of the Dandi March encore on April 5, it will be dreams built on pounds and dollars, that he would be a witness to.
		Though the re-enactment of the Dandi March has raised hopes among villagers that it may bring some focus back on the village, many feel that it is the strong backing of the NRIs that can bring development to Dandi.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1051722.cms (446 words)

	In the Footsteps of the Mahatma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Seventy-five years ago, when Mahatma Gandhi and 100 other satyagrahis marched the 240-mile journey from Sabarmati to Dandi to disregard the provisions of the Salt Laws, they opened the doors to India's freedom from British Rule.
		The constant media attention focused on the event, the lakhs of people that flocked to the streets when they marched through the cities and the warm welcome they received from villagers, proved to be exhilarating.
		When I reached Dandi, I felt I had completed a family legacy; a sense of pride enveloped me. It was such a personal and overwhelming experience that at that moment I wanted to be alone with my family.
	www.lifepositive.com /spirit/Mahatma_Gandhi/In_the_Footsteps_of_the_Mahatma62005.asp (767 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper
		It is an indication of the times we live in when the importance of an event is judged by the number of ob vans at the venue.
		The march was the best opportunity for me to witness and refresh for myself a collective rededication to these values.
		March for yourself, for us, and for an old man who will peer at you through his rimless glasses and chuckle.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main11.asp?filename=Ne032605Not_About.asp (992 words)

	indianexpress.com :: 76 yrs after March, Dandi to find place on tourism map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dandi may soon become part of the larger value tourism map.
		According to Ambika Soni, the whole route of Dandi march has already been identified and advertisement for designing the concept will be made on October 1.
		Currently, the Dandi March route is a cobble of 222 km of state roads, 90 km of panchayat roads and 42 km of open fields.
	www.indianexpress.com /printerFriendly/13124.html (525 words)

	Following Gandhi's Path - The Salt March
		On the 2nd of March 1930, Gandhi sent a letter to Lord Irwin, the English viceroy, to warn him that an action of civilian insubordination was to start the 12th of July.
		His enormously thick book, in which he investigates the Salt March by means of "participatory observation", was published in 1997, On the Salt March.
		On the 12th of March 2001 at 06:30 a.m., I started marching through the gate of the Sabarmati ashram, at the same high speed during the first 6-7 kilometres down to Ellis Bridge.
	www.transnational.org /SAJT/forum/meet/2002/fgp7_theSaltMarch.html (1059 words)

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