12 March in Hindu history
12 March 193012 March 1930 – March 1931
Dandi March begins
Gandhi sets out from Sabarmati Ashram with 78 followers to walk 385 km to Dandi. On 6 April he picks up a handful of salt on the shore, breaking the salt law.
Salt Satyagraha
Gandhi walked about 385 kilometres to the sea at Dandi to make salt in defiance of the British salt tax, and the whole country followed him into civil disobedience.
12 March 1968
Mauritius becomes independent
Mauritius became independent under Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, son of a girmitiya. It is one of the few countries where Hindus are the largest faith.