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Video: On this day 88 years ago, Gandhi began the Dandi March to protest the British salt tax

In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi marched 394 km from Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to Dandi to protest against the imposition of a salt tax by the British.

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Mar 12, 2018 · 07:00 am
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