5 Questions
Where did Gandhi first employ nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights?
South Africa
When did Britain grant India independence?
1947
What position did Gandhi assume in 1921?
Leader of the Indian National Congress
What were some of the nationwide campaigns that Gandhi led in India?
Easing poverty and ending untouchability
What was Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on?
Religious pluralism
Study Notes
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist.
- Gandhi employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
- He was born in 1869 in coastal Gujarat and trained in law in London.
- Gandhi lived in South Africa for 21 years, where he first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
- He returned to India in 1915 and assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921.
- Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- He was imprisoned many times 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.
- In August 1947, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions.
- Gandhi attempted to alleviate distress during the religious violence that broke out following partition and undertook several hunger strikes to stop it.
Test your knowledge of the life and legacy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Indian lawyer and nationalist leader who employed nonviolent resistance to lead his country to independence from British rule. This quiz covers his early life, activism in South Africa, leadership of the Indian National Congress, and efforts to promote religious pluralism and end poverty and discrimination. See how much you know about this iconic figure in Indian and world history.
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