5 Questions
What was Gandhi's main strategy in leading India's independence movement?
Nonviolent resistance
Where was Gandhi born and raised?
Coastal Gujarat, India
What did Gandhi do during his 21 years in South Africa?
He campaigned for civil rights using nonviolent resistance
What were some of the campaigns Gandhi led in India?
Easing poverty, expanding women's rights, and building religious and ethnic amity
What was the goal of Gandhi's hunger strikes?
To stop 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.
- He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
- Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, India.
- He moved to South Africa in 1893 and lived there for 21 years, where he first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
- He returned to India in 1915 and assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921.
- Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- He was imprisoned many times and for many years in both South Africa and India.
- In August 1947, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan.
- Gandhi undertook hunger strikes to stop religious violence and the last of these, begun in Delhi on 12 January 1948, also had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.
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