Word: dandi
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...this sort of movement which famed Mahatma Gandhi started last week at Dandi, a miserable little beach town on the west coast of India. Wading into the warm rollers of the Arabian Sea, he and 76 followers scooped up a little water, set it on the beach to be evaporated by the sun, thus broke the British law which makes the extraction or sale of salt a British monopoly...
Violence. In Calcutta, several days before St. Gandhi reached Dandi, a disturbance occurred when carters blocked the great Howrah Bridge at rush hour by removing the wheels of their carts. Police said that stones were thrown at them. They replied with bullets. Six men were killed, 60 wounded, but the disturbance then quieted. On the day of the salt-making, followers of Mr. Gandhi squatted down in front of a train near Bombay, but were beaten off by police...
While Mr. Gandhi sat waiting for the water to evaporate, 319,000,000 Indians were comparatively peaceful. No riots, bloodshed or violence of any sort had marked his march on foot 165 miles from Ahmadabad to the sea at Dandi in 25 days (TIME, March 24 et seq.). He had broken the law against seditious utterance at every village on the march. He had obtained the resignation of dozens of village officials, the pledge of hundreds of villagers to join in his movement of Mass Civil Disobedience...