Page "Salt March" Paragraph 27

On March 12, 1930, Gandhi and 78 satyagrahis many of them were scheduled castes, set out on foot for the coastal village of Dandi, Gujarat, over from their starting point at Sabarmati Ashram.

Salt March was also called the White Flowing river because all the people were joining the procession wearing white khadi.

According to The Statesman, the official government newspaper which usually played down the size of crowds at Gandhi's functions, 100, 000 people crowded the road that separated Sabarmati from Ahmadabad.

The first day's march of ended in the village of Aslali, where Gandhi spoke to a crowd of about 4, 000.

At Aslali, and the other villages that the march passed through, volunteers collected donations, registered new satyagrahis, and received resignations from village officials who chose to end cooperation with British rule.