3 Questions
When did Mahatma Gandhi move to South Africa?
1893
What was the last hunger strike undertaken by Mahatma Gandhi?
To pressure India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan
When did Mahatma Gandhi pass away?
January 30, 1948
Study Notes
- Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in the town of Porbandar in Gujarat, India.
- He was educated at the Inner Temple in London and became a lawyer in 1891.
- He moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit, and lived there for 21 years.
- He became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1921 and led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- In the months following independence, he undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence.
- The last of these, begun in Delhi on January 12, 1948, had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.
- Gandhi died on January 30, 1948.
Test your knowledge about Mahatma Gandhi's life, education, leadership, and significant contributions to India's independence movement.
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