Questions and Answers
Where was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born and raised?
In a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat
What did Gandhi employ to lead the successful campaign for India's independence?
Nonviolent resistance
Where did Gandhi first employ nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights?
South Africa
What did Gandhi challenge with the Dandi Salt March in 1930?
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What were some of the nationwide campaigns Gandhi led in India?
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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.
- 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 law at the Inner Temple, London, and was called to the bar at age 22.
- He moved to South Africa in 1893 and lived there for 21 years, where he first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
- Gandhi returned to India in 1915 and assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921.
- He led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- Gandhi challenged the British-imposed salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930 and called for the British to quit India in 1942.
- He was imprisoned many times and for many years in both South Africa and India.
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