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¿En qué año nació Mahatma Gandhi?
¿En qué año nació Mahatma Gandhi?
- 1869 (correct)
- 1893
- 1915
- 1921
¿Qué hizo Gandhi para identificarse con los pobres de la India?
¿Qué hizo Gandhi para identificarse con los pobres de la India?
- Comenzó a comer comida simple
- Se mudó a una comunidad autosuficiente
- Usó el dhoti como marca de identificación (correct)
- Emprendió largos ayunos
¿Qué sucedió en 1947?
¿Qué sucedió en 1947?
- El Imperio Británico otorgó la independencia a India
- India logró el swaraj
- El Imperio Británico fue dividido en dos dominios (correct)
- Gandhi comenzó a usar la resistencia no violenta
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- Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat, India.
- He was educated in England and became a lawyer in 1891.
- Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit.
- He began to use nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights in 1915.
- Gandhi became the leader of the Indian National Congress in 1921.
- He led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving swaraj or self-rule.
- Gandhi adopted the short dhoti woven with hand-spun yarn as a mark of identification with Indias rural poor.
- He began to live in a self-sufficient residential community, to eat simple food, and undertake long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest.
- In 1947, Britain granted independence to India and the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan.
- Gandhi visited the affected areas after independence to try to stop religious violence.
- Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes in the months following independence to pressure India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.
- Gandhi died on January 30, 1948.
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