Question: march on tanjore coast to break salt law

title: Vedaranyam March
text: The following day , shops all over the province remained closed . Despite repeated arrests and the use of brutal force by the police , people continued to make salt at Vedaranyam . The collector , Thorne , who at first had been confident of his ability to prevent the march , was forced to report to his superiors : `` If there ever existed a fervid sense of devotion to the ( British ) Government , it is now the defunct '' . Despite repeated arrests , people continued to make salt and Thorne ordered the police to lathi charge the crowd . Eventually he ordered a `` wholesale '' arrest , which led to 375 people in the district being arrested for protesting against the British . Rukmini Lakshmipathi , who was imprisoned for one year , became the first woman to serve a jail term for participating in the Salt Satyagraha movement . Kamaraj was arrested for exhorting 300 people to volunteer the march and inciting them to prepare salt . Since he did not refute the charges , he was sentenced to two years of rigorous imprisonment . At first , he was sent to the Trichinopoly before being transferred to the Bellary Central Jail .