Uttara Kannada was annexed late and administered oddly — taken with the rest of Kanara in 1799, held in the Madras Presidency for sixty years, and only moved to Bombay in 1862 — and its politics followed the presidency it ended up in. That is why the district's freedom movement reads like a Bombay Deccan movement rather than a coastal Madras one, and why it peaked in a single year. Ankola broke the salt law on 13 April 1930 before a crowd put at forty thousand, kept the satyagraha going for forty-five days, and then ran a no-tax campaign through the confiscations that followed; the taluk was called the Bardoli of Karnataka for it. Before that the district's record is thin and episodic — risings at Supa and Dandeli that coincided with the rebellion of 1857 — because the ghat forest was administered rather than governed and there were few local chiefships left to lose anything.
The risings at Supa and Dandeli1857–1858
Risings in the Kali basin at Supa, in the present Joida taluk, and at Dandeli, coinciding with the rebellion in the north and belonging to the same cluster as Nargund, Bagalkot and Halagali.
परिणाम: Suppressed with the rest of the Deccan risings; the district was reorganised into the Bombay Presidency four years later.
The Ankola salt satyagraha13 April 1930
M. P. Nadakarni broke the salt law at Ankola before a crowd put at about forty thousand. Revu Honnappa Nayak and Honnappa Mangeshkar bought the first packet of the illegal salt at auction for thirty rupees. Among those on the platform were Karnad Sadashiva Rao, Basagoda Rama Nayak, Umabai Kundapur and N. S. Hardikar.
परिणाम: The leaders were arrested at once; the satyagraha continued for forty-five days.
The no-tax campaign in the Kanara taluks1930–31
Ankola was one of four taluks chosen for the refusal of land revenue. Holdings were confiscated and auctioned, and the campaign was sustained through it.
परिणाम: Ankola was afterwards called the Bardoli of Karnataka. More than fifteen hundred activists were arrested across the Karnataka districts during the civil disobedience years.