# Gandhi leaves Ahmedabad on the Salt March toward Dandi

Date: 1930

## The fact

On 12 March 1930 Gandhi and a group of ashram companions left Sabarmati for the coast, reaching Dandi on 6 April and illegally evaporating salt. Arrests followed. This is not the 1931 pact.

## Context

Salt was a daily tax on the poor. The march was also theatre for world cameras. Both can be true. Muslim League non-participation and later communal splits are other rows. The salt breach remains a completed campaign instrument.

[Mahatma Gandhi](/people/mahatma-gandhi) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

India’s tourism-heritage page for Dandi and Britannica’s Salt March article independently date 12 March–6 April 1930.

Official or archival record: Incredible India — Dandi (Salt March site) (https://www.incredibleindia.gov.in/en/gujarat/navsari/dandi; Ministry of Tourism, Government of India).

## Significance

High-confidence civil-resistance path. Complex contribution with volunteers.

A pinch of salt is not independence. Quit India is a later Fact.

## What is established and what is not

Established: the march ran 12 March to 6 April 1930 and ended in a public salt-law breach. Not established: a unique salt-price series caused only by this walk.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [democratic-resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is democratic-resilience. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Mahatma Gandhi: https://factrail.ai/people/mahatma-gandhi

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/event/Salt-March
- https://www.incredibleindia.gov.in/en/gujarat/navsari/dandi

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ga-salt-march-1930