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The main reason behind the Civil Disobedience Movement was a protest against the British salt monopoly.

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The main reason behind the Civil Disobedience Movement was a protest against the British salt monopoly. On March 12, 1930, Mohandas Gandhi bravely marched to the sea in defiance of the British salt monopoly. It was his most daring act of civil disobedience in India against British rule. The British Salt Acts had made it unlawful for Indians to make or trade salt, which was an integral part of their diet. The Namak Satyagrah was organised in protest against the exorbitant salt tariff imposed by the British. In colonial India, making salt from seawater, as Indians had done for centuries, was an act of peaceful civil disobedience.

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