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India · 1930The Salt March: Gandhi's Dandi Satyagraha launches Civil Disobedience

India launched mass Civil Disobedience after the Lahore Congress's Purna Swaraj pledge, first observed as Independence Day on 26 January. Gandhi's Salt March to Dandi broke the salt law on 6 April, sparking nationwide defiance and mass arrests, while Congress boycotted the First Round Table Conference.

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Key figures

Mahatma Gandhi — led the Salt March and Civil Disobedience Movement; arrested in May 1930.Jawaharlal Nehru — Congress President at the Lahore Session (1929) under whom the Purna Swaraj resolution was adopted.Lord Irwin — Viceroy of India during the Civil Disobedience Movement and the Round Table process.C.V. Raman — awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the scattering of light.Surya Sen — led the Chittagong Armoury Raid, 18 April 1930.Muhammad Iqbal — Muslim League president whose Allahabad Address (December 1930) proposed consolidation of Muslim-majoriKhan Abdul Ghaffar Khan — led the Khudai Khidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier Province.

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