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What was Gandhi's main strategy in leading India's independence movement?
What was Gandhi's main strategy in leading India's independence movement?
- Nonviolent resistance (correct)
- Military intervention
- Violent resistance
- Political negotiation
Where was Gandhi born and raised?
Where was Gandhi born and raised?
- New Delhi, India
- Kolkata, India
- Mumbai, India
- Coastal Gujarat, India (correct)
What did Gandhi do during his 21 years in South Africa?
What did Gandhi do during his 21 years in South Africa?
- He led a military rebellion against the British
- He worked as a lawyer for the British government
- He focused on expanding business opportunities for Indians
- He campaigned for civil rights using nonviolent resistance (correct)
What were some of the campaigns Gandhi led in India?
What were some of the campaigns Gandhi led in India?
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What was the goal of Gandhi's hunger strikes?
What was the goal of Gandhi's hunger strikes?
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Study Notes
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer and anti-colonial nationalist.
- 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 coastal Gujarat in 1869 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.
- 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 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 undertook hunger strikes to stop religious violence and pressured India to pay out cash assets owed to Pakistan before his death in 1948.
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