3 Questions
What was Gandhi's main method of resistance?
Nonviolent resistance against the British
What was Gandhi's position in the Indian National Congress?
He was a leader of the party
What did Gandhi challenge with the Dandi Salt March?
British taxation on salt
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.
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