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Dandi, the coastal village where Gandhi broke the salt law in 1930, is located in which district of present-day Gujarat?

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Answer: Option C — Navsari

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Dandi, the coastal village where Mahatma Gandhi broke the salt law on 6 April 1930, is located in the Navsari district of present-day Gujarat.

About Dandi:

  • It is a small village on the shore of the Arabian Sea, near the town of Navsari.
  • At the time of the Salt Satyagraha, it was part of the Surat district; the Navsari district was carved out of the Valsad district in 1997.
  • It was chosen because natural salt deposits formed on its seashore, which made it easy to pick up salt and break the law.

The Salt Satyagraha:

  • Gandhi and his volunteers walked from the Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi.
  • They passed through many villages, such as Aslali, Bareja, Navagam, Nadiad, Anand, Borsad and Matwad.
  • On 6 April 1930, after his morning prayers, Gandhi picked up a lump of natural salt from the shore, breaking the law.
  • He said, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."

The National Salt Satyagraha Memorial:

  • A National Salt Satyagraha Memorial was set up at Dandi and inaugurated in January 2019.
  • It has statues of Gandhi and the 80 marchers who accompanied him (counting additions), and solar-powered salt pans where visitors can make salt.

Other salt satyagrahas:

In Kerala, K. Kelappan led a march to Payyanur.

In the North-West Frontier Province, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan's Khudai Khidmatgars took part in the movement.

Other places in Navsari district:

Navsari town was the birthplace of Jamsetji Tata (founder of the Tata group) and of Dadabhai Naoroji.

Why not the other options?

  • ✗Surat, Bharuch and Valsad are neighbouring districts.

Quick tip

Remember: Dandi is in Navsari district, Gujarat (salt law broken on 6 April 1930; National Salt Satyagraha Memorial 2019); Navsari = birthplace of Dadabhai Naoroji and Jamsetji Tata.

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This topic covers the freedom struggle from Gandhi's return to India in 1915 to independence in 1947: the Champaran, Kheda and Ahmedabad movements, the Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh, the Non-Cooperation, Civil Disobedience and Quit India movements, the Round Table Conferences, the Cripps Mission, the Cabinet Mission and the partition of India. Most questions ask about the year, cause or result of a movement, or the event that ended it. For example, the Chauri Chaura incident (1922) led Gandhi to call off the Non-Cooperation Movement, and the Dandi March (1930) started the Civil Disobedience Movement. Learning these events on a timeline is the best way to avoid confusion. Practise the Gandhian era questions below, written in the style of the general awareness sections of exams such as SSC, banking, railways, CUET GAT, MAH CET and CLAT. Each question comes with a detailed explanation that adds related facts, so every question helps you revise more than one point.

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