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What year did Mahatma Gandhi return to India?
What year did Mahatma Gandhi return to India?
- 1869
- 1915 (correct)
- 1947
- 1948
What did Gandhi lead nationwide campaigns for?
What did Gandhi lead nationwide campaigns for?
- Easing poverty
- Expanding womens rights
- Building religious and ethnic amity
- All of the above (correct)
How did Gandhi die?
How did Gandhi die?
- Heart attack
- Natural causes
- Assassinated (correct)
- Accidental death
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Study Notes
- Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in the coastal town of Porbandar, Gujarat, in British India.
- He trained as a lawyer and began his political career in South Africa, where he represented an Indian merchant.
- Gandhi returned to India in 1915 and soon became the leader of the Indian National Congress, a leading anti-colonial organization.
- Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule for India.
- In the months following independence in 1947, he undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence.
- Gandhi was assassinated in January 1948, just a few months after India became an independent nation.
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