Self Rule and the Salt March, 1930
- Protest to the British tax on salt
- Gandhi walked from Sabarmati, Ashram to Dandi, Gujarat to get salt (240 miles)
- Many thousands followed him
- March lasts March 12 to April 6, 1930.
- Outcome draws support for the independence movement across India and the World
- Gandhi arrested and put in prison
Summary: The British put taxes on Salt, Gandhi did not agree to this. Initiating the Salt March, he walked from Sabarmati, Ashram to Dandi, Gujarat to get salt from the ocean. Thousands of people followed him until his last March, March 12 to April 6, 1930. For this, he was arrested and as put in prison.