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Indian Independence Movement
In August 1947 British rule ended on the Indian subcontinent.
The Salt March, a pivotal act of nonviolent civil disobedience against the British salt monopoly, began at Mahatma Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmadabad in the state of Gujarat.123
The march concluded in the coastal town of Dandi (near Surat) on the Arabian Sea coast, where Gandhi and his followers symbolically broke the law by collecting salt on the morning of April 6, 1930.123