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Dandi March route

1930 CE · India

Mahatma Gandhi and a growing body of participants marched to Dandi to challenge the British salt laws through organized nonviolent civil disobedience.

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How the setting appeared

Roads, villages, meeting grounds and the Gujarat coast became a moving political landscape rather than one fixed monument.

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How people lived

Participants and host communities supplied food, shelter, information and public meetings across divisions of region, caste, religion and gender, though participation remained unequal.

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How people worked

Walking, spinning khadi, printing, speech, volunteer organization and making salt turned ordinary acts and tools into political symbols.

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Belief, ritual and worship

Prayer and ethical discipline informed many participants, while the campaign was a political coalition rather than a single religious rite.

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World-atlas stage: Industrial and colonial age
Region: South Asia · India
Languages and scripts: Gujarati; Hindustani; English
Important people: Mahatma Gandhi; Sarojini Naidu; Abbas Tyabji
Events and changes: Mahatma Gandhi and 78 selected companions left Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March 1930 CE to oppose the British colonial salt monopoly.; The march reached Dandi on 5 April 1930 CE after traveling through towns and villages in Gujarat.; Gandhi broke the salt law at Dandi on 6 April 1930 CE, helping initiate a wider campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience.; Colonial authorities arrested tens of thousands of participants during the 1930 campaign, including Gandhi before the planned Dharasana action.; The Gandhi-Irwin Pact of 5 March 1931 CE suspended the civil-disobedience campaign while leaving the constitutional dispute unresolved.
Evidence confidence: Strong documentary and photographic record; the visual is a general decolonization scene, not a portrait of the march.

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Historical geography

A dated anchor, not an exact border

The local map uses modern coastlines only for orientation. The marker identifies this record's geographic anchor, not the full reach of a community or polity.

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Evidence register

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CIT-CORE-DANDI-MARCH

Dandi March route: record evidence guide

https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5899/

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CIT-CORE136-DANDI-GOVERNMENT

Discovering Dandi March

https://www.dandimarch.org/

Government of India, Government of Gujarat, and Gujarat Vidyapith

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