5 Questions
Where was Mahatma Gandhi born?
Gujarat, India
What was Gandhi's profession before becoming a nationalist leader?
Lawyer
In which country did Gandhi first employ nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights?
South Africa
What did Gandhi lead in 1930 to protest against British rule?
Dandi Salt March
What was Gandhi's vision for an independent India based on?
Religious pluralism
Study Notes
- Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer and nationalist who used nonviolent resistance to achieve India's independence from British rule.
- He was born in 1869 in Gujarat, India 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.
- In 1915, he returned to India and began organizing protests against excessive land-tax and discrimination.
- Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, and achieving self-rule.
- He adopted a simple lifestyle and undertook long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest.
- Gandhi led the Dandi Salt March in 1930 and called for the British to quit India in 1942.
- He was imprisoned many times in both South Africa and India.
- Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged by Muslim nationalism in the early 1940s.
- After India gained independence in 1947, religious violence broke out and Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes to stop it, including one that indirectly aimed to pressure India to pay out cash assets owed to Pakistan.
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