The mass movement led by Mahatma Gandhi from 1930, based on the active and deliberate breaking of specific British laws, beginning with the salt law.
- Launched with the Dandi March (Salt Satyagraha), 12 March to 6 April 1930, from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi, where Gandhi made salt to break the salt monopoly.
- Followed the Lahore Congress (1929), which adopted the Purna Swaraj (complete independence) resolution; 26 January 1930 was observed as the first Independence Day.
- Methods went beyond non-cooperation: breaking salt laws, non-payment of taxes, boycott of foreign cloth and liquor, and defiance of forest laws.
- Suspended after the Gandhi-Irwin Pact (March 1931), under which Gandhi attended the Second Round Table Conference; resumed in 1932 after it failed, then ended by 1934.
- The Communal Award (1932) and Poona Pact (1932, on separate electorates for Depressed Classes) fall in this period.
Dandi March dates and route, the Purna Swaraj resolution, the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, and the Round Table Conferences are recurring freedom-struggle facts.
Civil Disobedience (1930, breaking laws, salt satyagraha) versus Non-Cooperation (1920, withdrawal and boycott); the Dandi March was to Dandi, not Dharasana.
Gandhi's 1930 movement of actively breaking laws, begun by the Dandi salt march from Sabarmati.