3 Questions
What was Gandhi's main method of resistance in his campaign for India's independence?
Nonviolent resistance
Where did Gandhi first use nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights?
South Africa
What did Gandhi challenge with the Dandi Salt March in 1930?
British-imposed salt tax
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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