Question

How did ‘Salt March’ become an effective tool of resistance against colonialism?

Answer 1

Hint: The Salt March is also known as the Dandi March, the Dandi Satyagraha, and the Salt Satyagraha. It took place from 12th March 1930 to 6th April 1930 and was led by Mohandas Gandhi to protest British rule in India as an act of civil disobedience.

Complete step by step answer:
British records indicate that satyagraha shook the British government. The British were left puzzled by peaceful agitation as to whether or not to jail Gandhi. In his memoirs, John Court Curry, a British police officer stationed in India, wrote that he felt nauseated every time he dealt with protests in Congress in 1930. In the British government, Curry and others, including Wedgwood Benn, Secretary of State for India, favored aggressive fighting rather than peaceful critics. Nevertheless, while by the mid-1930s British authorities were again in power the world opinion gradually began to recognize the validity of Gandhi's and the Congress Party's claims for sovereignty and self-rule. The 1930s Satyagraha movement also forced the British to acknowledge that their control of India was entirely dependent on Indian consent. Nehru found the high-water mark of his involvement with Gandhi to be the Salt Satyagraha and thought that its enduring significance was in transforming Indian attitudes. The ‘Salt March’ was a nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly and a direct action campaign of tax resistance. With 78 of his trusted volunteers, Mahatma Gandhi began this march. Walking ten miles a day the march spanned over 240 miles (384 km from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi, which at that time was called Navsari, now in the state of Gujarat. They were joined by an increasing number of Indians along the way.

Note: When on 6 April 1930, Gandhi broke the British Raj salt laws at 6:30 am it sparked large-scale acts of civil disobedience by millions of Indians against the salt laws.
Gandhi proceeded south along the coast, generating salt and addressing meetings on the way after making the salt by evaporation at Dandi.