The date was March 12, 1930. Gandhi and his troops walked for 25 days and 241 miles to the Arabian Sea to defy the unjust British law that prohibited the collection of salt in its colony.

Eighty-five years ago, on March 12, Mohandas Gandhi set out with 80 followers from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to Dandi village in coastal Gujarat to produce salt as a show of protest against ...

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting posted a video showing archived pictures from Mahatma Gandhi's salt march. "On this day, in 1930, Mahatma Gandhi began the historic Dandi ...

The garland was gifted to Gandhi by Nanduben Kanuga, the wife of his personal physician Dr. Balvantrai N. Kanuga, as the Salt March passed near their residence in Ahmedabad. The auction lot ...

He was Mohandas K Gandhi. At that time ... In 1930, he led the Salt March, a protest against the British who were selling salt to Indians. Indians needed salt to stay healthy.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting posted a video showing archived pictures from Mahatma Gandhi's salt march. "On this day, in 1930, Mahatma Gandhi began the historic Dandi ...

On the 95th anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi-led Dandi March, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to those who participated in the historic Salt Satyagraha -- a defining chapter in India's ...