Questions and Answers
What were some of the campaigns that Gandhi led in South Africa?
Gandhi employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights in South Africa.
What were some of the issues that Gandhi campaigned for in India?
Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, and achieving self-rule in India.
What was Gandhi's vision for an independent India and what challenged it?
Gandhi's vision for an independent India was based on religious pluralism, but it was challenged by Muslim nationalism.
Study Notes
- 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 in 1869 in coastal Gujarat and trained in law in London.
- Gandhi lived in South Africa for 21 years, where he raised a family and employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
- He returned to India in 1915 and led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, and achieving self-rule.
- Gandhi adopted a simple lifestyle and undertook long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest.
- He challenged the British-imposed salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930 and called for the British to quit India in 1942.
- Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged by Muslim nationalism.
- He undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence and the last one indirectly aimed to pressure India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.
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