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Where was Mahatma Gandhi born and raised?
Where was Mahatma Gandhi born and raised?
- In a Muslim family in coastal Gujarat
- In a Christian family in coastal Gujarat
- In a Sikh family in coastal Gujarat
- In a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat (correct)
What did Gandhi challenge with the Dandi Salt March in 1930?
What did Gandhi challenge with the Dandi Salt March in 1930?
- The British-imposed sugar tax
- The British-imposed tea tax
- The British-imposed alcohol tax
- The British-imposed salt tax (correct)
What did Gandhi call for in 1942?
What did Gandhi call for in 1942?
- For the British to quit India (correct)
- For India to become a Muslim-majority country
- For India to become a Hindu-majority country
- For India to become a British colony
What did Gandhi's vision of an independent India include?
What did Gandhi's vision of an independent India include?
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What happened when Britain granted independence in August 1947?
What happened when Britain granted independence in August 1947?
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- Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist
- He employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule
- Gandhi inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world
- He was born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat
- Gandhi trained in the law at the Inner Temple, London
- Gandhi returned to India in 1915 and soon set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination
- Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving swaraj or self-rule
- Gandhi challenged the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (250 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930 and in calling for the British to quit India in 1942
- Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged in the early 1940s by a Muslim nationalism
- In August 1947, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan.
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