Mohandas Gandhi employed civil disobedience during the Indian Independence movement. Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. It's sometimes defined as being nonviolent resistance.

            March 12, 1930, Gandhi began a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. Britain's salt act prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt. Citizens were forced to buy the vital mineral from the British, who, in addition to exercising a monopoly over the manufacture and salt of salt, also exerted a heavy salt tax. Gandhi declared resistance to British salt policies to be unifying theme for his new campaign of saltyagraha.
             On March 12, Gandhi set out from Sabarmati with 78 followers on a 24-mile march to the coastal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea. There, Gandhi and his supporters were to defy British policy by making salt from seawater. On March 21, the poet, Sarojini Naidu, led 2,500 marchers were viciously beat by several hundred British police men