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On the Stamp
Gandhi bending to pick up salt, beside a map of the coast from Surat to Dandi.
The Dandi March
India Post issued four ₹5 stamps and a ₹20 miniature sheet on 6 April 2005, 75 years after the Dandi March, the Salt Satyagraha. Led by Mahatma Gandhi, the march ran for 24 days, from 12 March to 6 April 1930, over 387 kilometres from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi, in non-violent protest against the British salt monopoly. Gandhi set out with 78 volunteers and more joined along the way; when he broke the salt laws at Dandi on the morning of 6 April, millions of Indians followed with acts of civil disobedience of their own. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamps themselves.
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