5 Questions
Chi era Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi?
Un avvocato indiano e un nazionalista anti-coloniale
Come ha condotto Gandhi la campagna per l'indipendenza dell'India?
Con la resistenza non violenta
Cosa ha ispirato Gandhi in tutto il mondo?
Movimenti per i diritti civili e la libertà.
Quando è stato applicato per la prima volta il titolo onorifico Mahātmā a Gandhi?
Nel 1914.
Quali campagne ha condotto Gandhi dopo il suo ritorno in India nel 1915?
Campagne per l'espansione dei diritti delle donne
Study Notes
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer and anti-colonial nationalist.
- He employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
- He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
- The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: great-souled, enerable) was first applied to him in 1914.
- Gandhi trained in law in London and moved to South Africa in 1893.
- He raised a family and first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights in South Africa.
- Gandhi returned to India in 1915 and led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, and achieving self-rule.
- He was imprisoned many times and for many years in both South Africa and India.
- Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged by Muslim nationalism in the early 1940s.
- Gandhi attempted to alleviate distress during religious violence in the months following India's independence and undertook several hunger strikes.
Test your knowledge of the life and legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian lawyer and anti-colonial nationalist who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. From his early years in South Africa to his campaigns for India's independence and his vision of religious pluralism, this quiz will challenge your understanding of one of history's most influential figures. Keywords: Mahatma Gandhi, India's independence, nonviolent resistance, civil rights, religious pluralism.
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