How well do you know Mahatma Gandhi?

Study Notes

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist.
He employed nonviolent resistance to lead India's successful campaign for independence from British rule.
Gandhi was born in 1869 in coastal Gujarat, India, and trained in law in London.
He lived in South Africa 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 campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
Gandhi adopted a simple lifestyle and undertook long fasts as a means of 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 in the early 1940s.
He worked to alleviate distress during the religious violence that broke out after India's independence in 1947 and undertook several hunger strikes to stop the violence.