Dandi is a village in the

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taluka, Navsari District,

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. It is located on the coast of the

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near the city of Navsari. The village got into worldwide prominence in 1930, when

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selected it to be the destination for the Salt March. He marched from Sabarmati (

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per t ...

) to Dandi ( Navsari) with some of his followers to protest against the imposition of a tax on salt by the

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. Thousands of people participated, travelling on foot for 24 days from

to Dandi. The

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initiated plans to develop the Sabarmati-Dandi stretch as a tourist hub. In 2019 the

National Salt Satyagraha Memorial The National Salt Satyagraha Memorial or Dandi Memorial is a memorial in Dandi, Gujarat, India, that honors the activists and participants of the Salt Satyagraha, an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India which was led by Mahat ...

to commemorate the Salt March of the Indian Independence Movement was opened in the village.

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{{Navsari district Historic sites in India Villages in Navsari district

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