5 Questions
What was Gandhi's profession?
Lawyer
Where did Gandhi first employ nonviolent resistance?
South Africa
What did Gandhi call for during the Dandi Salt March?
The British to quit India
What did Gandhi do to protest against discrimination?
He organized protests
What was the result of Gandhi's vision of an independent India?
India was partitioned and experienced religious violence
Study Notes
- Mohandas Karamchand 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, India, 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.
- In 1915, he returned to India and began organizing peasants, farmers, and urban laborers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination.
- He led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- Gandhi adopted a simple lifestyle and undertook long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest.
- He led the 400 km 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, leading to the partition of India in 1947 and subsequent religious violence.
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