5 Questions
Where was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born?
Coastal Gujarat
What did Gandhi use to lead India to independence from British rule?
Nonviolent resistance
What inspired movements across the world according to the text?
Gandhi's use of nonviolent resistance
What did Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism face a challenge from?
Muslim nationalism
What did Gandhi undertake several hunger strikes for?
To stop religious violence
Study Notes
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer and anti-colonial nationalist.
- He employed nonviolent resistance to lead India to 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 first used nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
- He returned to India in 1915 and assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress.
- Gandhi led campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, 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.
- He undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence and pressure India to pay out cash assets owed to Pakistan.
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